The American Medical Association Recognizes Shared Decision Making
Readers of the Disease Management Care Blog may be surprised to learn that the American Medical Association “recognizes” shared decision making. A document recommending precisely that is available for your reading pleasure here. It’s a good review of the topic and makes for interesting reading. While the DMCB knew that the term “shared decision making” was [...]
Conscience Clauses and Conscientious Objection
While the print version was released a few weeks ago, the online version of my brief look at the legal aspects of provider conscientious objection was posted in the Winter 2011 Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal. I did a more comprehensive review in 21(2) Journal of Clinical Ethics.
Global Health Care on WIHI
Improving Health Care: The Global ViewJuly 7, 2011, 2:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern Time Guests: Lord Nigel Crisp, Strategic Advisor on Global Health and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Author, Turning the World Upside Down: The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century. Pierre Barker, MD, Senior Vice President for IHI improvement initiatives [...]
Culture and Elites
The editors of n+1 on “The Revolt of the Elites“: Still, elitism, that widespread term, usually refers to a much narrower phenomenon than just a fancy education. Recall that in 2004 the educational backgrounds of the cultural elitist John Kerry (St. Paul’s, Yale) and the cultural populist George Bush (Andover, Yale) were remarkably similar. Kerry’s [...]
Unrealistic expectations and unachievable time lines
—characterize meaningful use requirements for EMR adoption according to this article. Even large experienced institutions are saying they can’t do it. Via Todays’ Hospitalist.
