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Learning Put Into Practice Through Relationship Building: One Student’s Reflection

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Mon, Oct 15 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Patient Safety, Atul Gawande, Peter Pronovost, Health Care Quality, Patient Education, Medical Education, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, Health literacy, Health care & health policy, pharmacy, safe and effective health care, physician leadership, teamwork, Patient experience, medical students, Medical Ethics, medical student, PATIENT-CENTERED, quality improvement, Educate the Young, David Mayer MD, curriculum redesign, disclosure of medical error to patients, patient safety curriculum, proactive approach to medical error prevention, disclosure, physician executive, medical curricula, respect, interdisciplinary teams, interprofessional collaborative care, medical resident, Kristin Morrison, Telluride

Unaccountable

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Tue, Sep 25 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Patient Safety, Peter Pronovost, Medical Education, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Wall Street Journal, Technology in healthcare, Innovation/innovative companies, Brent James, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, transparency, Change Management, new technology, Medical Ethics, David Mayer, healthcare transformation, missed learning opportunities, advocates lacking effectiveness and unity, improved healthcare efficiency, changes in medical education, systemic failures, "How to Stop Hospitals from Killing Us", Marty Makary, clinical process improvement, Unaccountable, mixed results, @DrMartyMD, medical mistakes, media coverage, recalcitrant to change, Lucian Leape, the science of safety, transparency of clinical outcomes, Jim Conway

Quality without science and research is absurd

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Wed, Jul 18 2012
Filed under: Filed under: hospitals, Patient Safety, Peter Pronovost, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Health care & health policy, Running a Hospital, Paul Levy, Not Running a Hospital, quality improvement

Why the fragility of health outcomes research may be a good outcome for health

Durably improving health is really, really hard. I’ve discussed this in the context of drug discovery, which must contend with the every-more-apparent reality that biology is incredibly complex, and science remarkably fragile. I’ve discussed this in the context of patient behavior, focusing on the need...

Posted to News by Health. Care. on Thu, Apr 5 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Uncategorized, health, Health care, Pharma & Healthcare, Innovation & Science, byline=David Shaywitz, Atul Gawande, Peter Pronovost, Patient, Hospital, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, New England Journal of Medicine, TechCrunch, Building the Organization of Tomorrow

What I learned from listening to a patient

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Sat, Feb 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Patient Safety, Peter Pronovost, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Health care & health policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, listening to patients, doctor patient communication

Keen to drive science into medicine? Four lessons from an innovation conference.

I’ve just returned from participating in an engaging and highly interactive translational research innovation symposium at this past Thursday put together by Dr. David Epstein at the Duke Eye Center and Chancellor Victor Dzau, and featuring both University faculty and invited external speakers. Four...

Posted to News by Health. Care. on Sat, Jan 21 2012
Filed under: Filed under: health, Pharma & Healthcare, Innovation & Science, byline=David Shaywitz, Peter Pronovost, Leadership, desmond-hellmann, MIT, entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg, Duke University, nancy andrews, Victor Dzau, Judah Folkman, Robert Langer, Tom Byers, ticker=NYSE:SNY

Why three hospitals didn’t hurt my wife

Posted to News by The Doctor Weighs In on Tue, Dec 6 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Patient Safety, Peter Pronovost, Medical research, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Partnership for patients, Family and kids, Michael Millenson, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, safe and effective health care, Baylor Health Care System, critical care safety, Ascension Health, Mass General Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital

Improved measurement: a path to better health for real people

A high-level perspective on select key challenges and opportunities in the healthcare space. I had the opportunity today to speak at the Open Science Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA; the meeting featured a [...] Read More...

Posted to News by Health. Care. on Sun, Oct 23 2011
Filed under: Filed under: health, Medicine, Health care, Pharma & Healthcare, Innovation & Science, byline=David Shaywitz, Peter Pronovost, Physician, Patient, metrics, Data Driven, measurement, Melinda Gates, value, Computer History Museum

Standards and medical practices: a cautionary prognosis for algorithm-based care

A distinguishing feature of the U.S. healthcare system – let us suspend judgment, for the moment, on whether this is an asset or a liability — would seem to be its variability, the fact that two patients with a similar disease can receive very different care. This may have its historical routes...

Posted to News by Health. Care. on Tue, Jun 21 2011
Filed under: Filed under: health, Medicine, Health care, Pharma & Healthcare, Innovation & Science, byline=David Shaywitz, Atul Gawande, Strategies & Solutions, Peter Pronovost, evidence-based medicine, Physician, Organizations, Patient