Category Archives: Partnership

Partnership

‘Coproduction’ — A New Way to Look at Healthcare

by Susan Carr • March 12, 2020 • 0 Comments

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in Patient Safety Beat, the digital newsletter of the Betsy Lehman Center, in January 2020. Maren Batalden, M.D., M.P.H., is Interim Chief Quality Officer, Associate Director of Graduate Medical Education for Quality and Safety, and Director of Medical Management for the Accountable Care Organization at the Cambridge Health Alliance […]

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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.

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Partnership

Complex Expectations of Patients Toward Their Physicians

by Michael L. Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors • October 25, 2018 • 0 Comments

When my father reached his mid-80s, an accelerating accumulation of physical and mental functioning issues persuaded him to switch to a primary care physician in a concierge medical practice. Although the doctor’s pedigree proclaimed his competence, he mostly excelled as the medical equivalent of a hotel concierge who can magically procure hard-to-get restaurant reservations at […]

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Michael L. Millenson, President, Health Quality Advisors LLC Michael L. Millenson, president of Health Quality Advisors LLC, Highland Park, IL, is a nationally recognized expert on quality of care improvement, patient-centered care and web-based health. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age, and he is adjunct associate professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. National Public Radio called him “in the vanguard of the movement” to measure and improve American medicine. Prior to starting his own firm, Millenson was a principal in the health-care practice of a major human resources consulting firm. Before that, he was a healthcare reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he was nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize. He serves on the boards of the American Journal of Medical Quality and Project Patient Care.

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