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NEWS AND EVENTS
02/06/2013 Health Affairs Briefing: New Era of Patient Engagement
W Hotel, Washington, DC more info
02/04/2013 AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington, DC more info
01/14/2013 Institute of Medicine Evidence Communication Innovation Collaborative
Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, DC
12/11/2012 QualityNet Conference: A More Perfect Union:
Baltimore, Maryland more info
12/04/2012 Kimmel Center, New York University
New York, NY more info
11/29/2012 National Health Council's Washington Representatives Retreat
Annapolis, Maryland
11/28/2012 ECRI Institute Conference: Creating
National Transportation Safety Board Conference Center, Washington, DC more info
11/05/2012 Fourth National Comparative Effectiveness Summit
Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC more info
10/23/2012 Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics
Portland, OR
10/09/2012 Institute of Medicine's National Cancer Policy Forum: Delivering Affordable Cancer Care in the 21st Century
Washington, DC more info
09/14/2012 Care Coordination Summit 2012: New Models of Care Transforming Practice
National Press Club, Washington, DC more info
08/15/2012 National Collaborative Meeting, Health Research and Educational Trust's Hospital Engagement Network
Chicago, IL
08/04/2012 Richard Heffner's Open Mind
more info
06/18/2012 Conference: Connecting Healthcare and Social Media
New York, NY more info
06/13/2012 Sixth Annual Palliative Care Conference: The Art and Practice of Conversation
Portland, Maine more info
06/06/2012 Illinois Hospital Association Conference: Patient-Centered Delivery: The Catalyst for Transformative Care
Northern Illinois University, Naperville, Illinois more info
06/05/2012 ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) 17th Annual International Meeting
Washington, DC more info
04/25/2012 Avoiding Avoidable Care Conference
Cambridge, MA more info
04/17/2012 Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
Washington, D.C. more info
04/05/2012 National Quality Forum’s 2012 Annual Conference
Washington, DC more info
04/04/2012 Quality Counts Annual Conference
Augusta, Maine
02/10/2012 American Hospital Association Committee on Research Meeting
Scottsdale, AZ more info
11/22/2011 Transforming Health Care Through Collaboration
Washington, DC
11/09/2011 164th NYAM Anniversary Discourse & Awards; Annual Meeting of the Voting Fellows
New York, NY more info
10/14/2011 National Comparative Effectiveness Summit
Washington, DC more info
10/04/2011 Clark University
Worcester, MA more info
09/27/2011 Institute for Healthcare Improvement Program: "Transforming the Primary Care Practice"
Washington, DC more info
09/20/2011 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2011 Annual Conference
Bethesda, MD more info
09/19/2011 Annual Meeting of Practice Change Fellows Program
Boston, MA more info
05/18/2011 "Thriving in an Era of Health Care Reform" Colloquium sponsored by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
St. Paul, MN more info
05/15/2011 Syracuse University Commencement
Syracuse, NY
03/14/2011 Evaluating Survivorship Care Planning in the Era of Comparative Effectiveness
National Cancer Institute, Washington, DC more info
03/03/2011 What You and Your Doctor Are Doing Wrong
more info
02/28/2011 Workshop on Patient-Centered Cancer Treatment Planning: Improving the Quality of Oncology Care
Washington, DC more info
12/08/2010 Premier Forum on Patient-Centered Medical Homes
Orlando, FL more info
12/08/2010 Premier Forum on Patient-Centered Medical Homes
Orlando, FL more info
BLOGS AND ESSAYS

How Easily We Can Misinterpret the Benefits of Patient-Centered Innovation!
May 8, 2013
Here's the bad news: We will not benefit from the health care services, drugs, tests and procedures available to us unless we pay attention, learn about our choices, interact with our clinicians and follow through on the plans we make together.


The "True Grit"-tiness of Sharing Health Care Decisions with Our Doctors
May 1, 2013
In the Coen brothers remake of the 1969 movie True Grit, Mattie Ross, an intrepid 14-year-old, is determined to hunt down and kill the man who murdered her father. To accomplish this, she hires U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, (played by a mumbling Jeff Bridges) a rough, one-eyed veteran of many such quests then announces that she plans to come along. She figures she is prepared.


Bad Language: Words One Patient Won't Use (and Hopes You Won't Either)
April 24, 2013
When I read Trudy Lieberman’s post yesterday, I was reminded that the highly charged political debates about reforming American health care have provided tempting opportunities to rename the people who receive health services. But because the impetus for this change has been prompted by cost and quality concerns of health care payers, researchers and policy experts rather than emanating from us out of our own needs, some odd words have been called into service.


Whose Patient Engagement Goals Are We Talking About?
April 17, 2013
What we look for when we participate actively in our health care differs from what our clinicians, employers and health plans believe will result when we shift from being passive to active participants. We don't have the same goals in mind. Does this matter?


Has Patient Engagement Stalled?
April 10, 2013
A few discouraging reports on patient engagement have skittered across my desk in the past few weeks. What's going on? Why are so many of us so slow to engage in our care when it is increasingly clear that we will do better if we participate more fully? Here's what I suspect...

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