Within healthcare quality improvement circles there is a growing interest in Implementation Science, which seeks to understand how intentional change within healthcare delivery systems is performed and sustained. The National Institutes of Health define Implementation...
Our ability to improve care quality depends on our ability to influence. Convincing someone to fund a project or getting a provider to change how they practice or a policy maker to change policy involves not only valid metrics and robust analysis, but the ability to...
‘Tis the season [originally published right after Christmas]…and what I mean is that it’s time to cue the barrage of articles telling you how to set yearly goals and how to go about achieving them. How many of them do you actually read? Maybe you...
In August of 2017, there was an article that suggested that Amazon’s Alexa (the voice-triggered assistant in Amazon’s Echo platform) could be the future of home health care. Evidently home health aides are testing it in homes of elderly patients…and the early results...
The NPR article about a shortage of physicians in rural Arizona is another example, in my opinion, that demonstrates that patient-provider interactions WILL be changing. The article includes interviews from patients who have to drive long distances for appointments...
With all of the changes going on in reimbursement and the private insurance market, the increasing enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) has received little attention. The Kaiser Family Foundation has a nice article here about not only trends in enrollment but also...
