Lots of interesting Ix-related stories have been in the media recently, but none more dramatic than the study from the Archives of Internal Medicine that demonstrated a significant relationship between inadequate health literacy and all-cause mortality in seniors. In fact, Baker et al (7/23/07; abstract at http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/14/1503) found that literacy is a more powerful predictor of [...]
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Health Literacy or Death
July 25, 2007Truly Understanding Consumers’ Needs…Some Lessons in “Genchi Genbutsu”
February 21, 2007What do consumers really want? To answer that question in health care, we might want to look at leaders in other industries that have developed great reputations with consumers.
This past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine had a cover story about Toyota and how that company–now with a market capitalization of $240 billion, which is greater [...]
Applying “Rapid Learning” to Behavior Change Science to Transform Health Care
January 28, 2007I attended a fascinating Health Affairs (www.healthaffairs.org) briefing on “A Rapid-Learning Health System” this past Friday, January 26 here in Washington. The project was led by Lynn Etheridge and Health Affairs and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (www.rwjf.org), Kaiser Permanente (www.kp.org), and the US Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (www.ahrq.gov).
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Making the Case for Information Therapy (Ix): Recognition, Reimbursement, and Research
January 9, 2007Since research* suggests that 50% to 80% of everything that a patient hears in the doctor’s office has been completely forgotten by the time he or she gets home, it remains remarkable to me that payers don’t require an Ix after-visit summary as a condition for reimbursing clinical encounters.
For reasons such as this, the inherent [...]
