Editor’s note: I recently interviewed Dr. Kirsten Meisinger for Patient Safety Beat, the digital newsletter of the Betsy Lehman Center. In that conversation, she talks about the “National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being” that was released in October, how teamwork has transformed her practice and the effect that financial pressure has on healthcare. Danny van […]
Danny van Leeuwen, whose “Health Hats” blog and podcast are often featured here, embodies engagement. In the intro to his latest podcast, he emphasizes the richness of patient engagement; done right, it pervades an organization at all levels: Patients engaged in governance, design, operations, and learning about medical care delivery, policy, research, technology, and business. […]
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 […]
In NICHQ’s work to transform practices into medical homes, family partners play a key role in providing guidance for how to make change. Ziva Mann is one of these family partners, working with a team from Cambridge Pediatrics in Massachusetts. An advocate and mother of a child with hemophilia, she shares her story on the […]