Believing in Design: Return to Mayo Transform
October 4, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Al Shar discusses the intersection between design and medical professionals.
Patient Concerns
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Does Fear of Being Labeled "Difficult" Prevent Patients from Expressing Themselves to Doctors?
June 4, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: You conducted six focus groups, with 48 patients, to better understand how they felt about obstacles to shared decision making. Tell us what you found. Frosch: Patients absolutely want to collaborate with their physicians in making clinical dec ...
Recession Likely Cause of Drop in Doctor Visits, Prescription Medications
April 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Americans visited their doctors less often and took fewer medications in 2011, according to a study released this month by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. The likely cause: financial pressures. “The Use of Medicines in the United State ...
Weighing the Good and Bad of OpenNotes
March 26, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
OpenNotes is a digital tool with which a physician takes and stores the notes of every encounter with a patient.
Confusion Reigns: Cutting Through the Overload of Information on Cancer Prevention
March 15, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Health & Society Scholar writes about research on how Americans make sense of information on the causes of cancer and ways to prevent it.
Scholar’s Website Prepares Patients to Make Complex Medical Decisions
February 11, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
PrepareForYourCare.org is a free, easy-to-use online resource that guides patients through all the steps of advance care planning.
Physician Visits Increasing; Reasons Unclear
August 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Americans’ visits to physicians had become less frequent in recent years, at least in part because of patients’ financial concerns. But they’re apparently beginning to pick up again. American Medical News reports that recent data from insurers, con ...
The Imperative to Make All Patients Feel Respected and Comfortable
March 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In this study, we set out to identify accommodations that American Muslims feel would improve their care. Working with community groups in the greater Detroit area, home to one of the nation’s largest Muslim communities, we recruited participants to ...
PatientsLikeMe Project Pioneers Use of Outcomes Data That Are Meaningful To Patients
February 25, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Jamie Heywood, co-founder of PatientsLikeMe, and Paul Tarini, senior program officer of the Pioneer Team at RWJF, share their views on creating an open-access platform to develop measures that matter to patients.
Physicians and Social Media: First, Do No Harm.
July 27, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The boards also answered questions about how they handled the violations. Fifty-six percent of the boards said physician misconduct online led to serious disciplinary outcomes—license to practice was either restricted, suspended, or revoked. My coll ...