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FierceHealthcare.com- If you’ve got it, flaunt it. That’s the message from fiercehealthcare on patient satisfaction scores. Instead of simply looking at 3rdparty patient satisfaction measurement as a hurdle to cross for reimbursement, many organizations are using these scores as marketing tools. Hospitals in California, Minnesota, and elsewhere are posting HCAHPS data on Facebook, Twitter and [...]

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KevinMD – A couple weeks ago, author and blogger, Dave deBronkart discussed the uncertainty and frustration surrounding patient diagnosis, stating “People who want certainty – physicians or patients – are kidding themselves.  And if we expect docs to be perfect, it’s a setup for dysfunction”.  DeBronkart himself is a cancer survivor with a 50% chance [...]

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KevinMD – In this article, Dominic A. Carone discusses ways doctors can lose patients from a non-physician perspective.  Carone, a practicing Neuropsychologist, observes and speaks with patients about their medical and care provider history.  Over time, he has noticed trends in stories from patients who have changed care providers because they were unsatisfied.  Here’s his [...]

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Lisa Bernstein- The What To Expect Foundation’s Baby Basics Prenatal Health Literacy Program has a group (and other components) that are all created to work with and for everyone that cares about healthy pregnancies. Here are the components: The Baby Basics book and planner Each expecting mom receives a copy of Baby Basics or Hola [...]

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Rainy Warf, M.P.H., CHES-  The Canyon Ranch Institute Life Enhancement Program (CRI LEP) is an integrative health and wellness program, and is grounded in the best practices of health literacy. During weekly group sessions and one-on-one visits with health care professionals, participants learn new health information, participate in hands-on learning experiences, set health goals, and [...]

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First, thanks to all of the contributors for a truly amazing month of thoughts and insights. From Gary Schwitzer’s excellent piece on the challenges of reporting on and reading about medical information in the news, to Helen Osborne and Diana Dilger’s view of challenges from the patient side, to Cynthia Baur and Cindy Brach’s information [...]

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Cynthia Baur, PhD- In 2006, when the Health Literacy Working Group at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decided to sponsor the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy, we knew we were charting new territory. To our knowledge, no one else had tried to write a plan for health literacy improvement [...]

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