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Liz Salmi Continues to Report from the Frontier

Editor’s note: Looking back at my posts from roughly a year ago — an occasional habit that provides an interesting measure of time – I found I had posted news from Liz Salmi in late September and early October 2021. It’s time now for a new update and an Encore Presentation about guidance she and […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

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Children’s Health System Offers Health Literacy Curriculum for High School Students

Editor’s note: We first published this post in August 2019, roughly five months before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. Most teens and young adults have gained knowledge about viruses, vaccines, testing protocols, etc. that few of us ever imagined they would need. There is also continuing need to ensure that they understand how to […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

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Leveraging a Bilingual Clinical Workforce for COVID-19 Care

Editor’s note: Dr. Joseph Betancourt, who led the effort described below, frequently uses social media and presentations to to convey what he observes and has learned about the overlapping pandemics of health disparities and COVID-19. In addition to the article below, interested readers will find many offerings that feature Dr. Betancourt on YouTube, including “Structural […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

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Engaging with Evidence-Based Medicine in the ‘Lifeworld’

Lifeworld…is the background of ordinary life: mainly private, somewhat naive and biased, but also authentic and essential to our satisfaction as human beings. – Peter Levine Health problems happen in the “lifeworld” – the deeply individual, imperfect, meaningful and authentic experience each of us has living in the world. The way our health care system […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

Check out my: Twitter


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KLAS Summit Identifies Seven Principles for Patient Engagement

Last fall, healthcare IT leaders came together in Salt Lake City, Utah, to discuss the future of patient engagement. This Patient Engagement Keystone Summit sought to accomplish a few things: Define patient engagement and establish a framework. Establish a common, patient-centric language. Align health information technology (HIT) capabilities and expectations. Explore patient engagement outcome measurements. […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

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Cost of Care: Engaging in Difficult Conversations

Editor’s note: In this Encore Presentation, Wendy Nickel describes how important it is to discuss the cost of care. Financial considerations are patient engagement discussions, too, and typically not easy for patients, families, or providers. On January 10th this year, my 12-year-old son experienced a concussion during basketball practice. I wasn’t there, but my husband was and […]

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Wendy Nickel Wendy Nickel is director of the Centers for Quality and Patient Partnership in Healthcare at the American College of Physicians. She has over 20 years of experience in healthcare, focused on patient advocacy and improving quality, safety and the experience of care.

Wendy K. Nickel, MPH has 3 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org


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Engaged in My Health Journey – An Experiment of One

Editor’s Note: Danny van Leeuwen is a remarkably prolific blogger, and I look forward to reading all his posts. In a recent post, he expressed frustration with medication lists that defy correction and constantly default to old or incorrect information despite his attempts and the sincere efforts of his providers to make them right. My […]

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Danny van Leeuwen Danny van Leeuwen, an action catalyst empowering people traveling together toward best health, wears many hats in healthcare: patient with MS, care partner for several family members’ end-of-life journeys, a nurse for 40 years, an informaticist and a QI leader. Danny focuses on learning what works for people: patient-centered research, communication at transitions of care, health planning, informed decision-making and technology supporting solutions created by and for people. He reviews PCORI research funding applications and serves as co-chair of PCORI’s Communication and Dissemination Advisory Panel. Danny also serves on a technical panel advising CMS on quality-measure development and is active in the Society for Participatory Medicine. Danny blogs weekly (www.health-hats.com) and was recently published in BMJ.

Danny van Leeuwen, Opa, RN, MPH, CPHQ has 4 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

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OpenNotes: A Growing Trend in Transparency

Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: In seven years, OpenNotes has grown from a pilot program of 20,000 patients at three U.S. health systems to an international movement of more than 16.5 million patients. Last week, Engaging Patients published a post by Macda Gerard, a medical student and OpenNotes research assistant. To add a bit more context, […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

Check out my: Twitter