Marcus Pierson, MD: Patient-centered

High Level model of Whatcom Co, Pursuing Perfection approach

Key Components of Whatcom Consortium's approach to Pursuing Perfection in Healhtcare.

Pursuing Perfection Components in Whatcom County.

We will use this or a similar graphic on the home page of the future to guide users to the parts they are interested in. We will also add search capabilities by these categories... in the future, the near future I hope.

Shared Care Plan: in Radio or Manilla?

I wonder if Userland could manage a "shared care plan". The key idea is that several (3-7) people need to be informed and in communication about a specific "data set".

I believe that Nicholas Riley had done this previously with Frontier Manilla or Radio.

Patient Centered care, the relationship between measruement and care team behavior.

Bill Mahoney begins the open dialogue on Patient Centered care when he posts:

Activated patientness is not a trait but a state. The state is created by the care team (in whatever form) providing patient-centered care. The only importance of patient traits is that they (e,g, locus of control, self-esteem, soci-economic status, location in the social structure) specify the probability of x level/type of patient-centered care activity resulting in y level of activation. The biggest barrier (if the focus groups done 2 years ago tell us anything) is not the patient, but the provider. Building patient-centered care (CCM's productive interactions) is identical to building team development (it is team development.....patient as full partner in the care team). The absolutely essential foundation of patient-centered care is the creation of team cohesiveness (see team measure) and this will require that providers redefine their role, the patient's role and the nature of the patient-provider relationship. My hypothesis is that few will be willing to go there and we may easily revert to blaming it on those noncompliant patients...an animal that does not exist. [Bill Mahoney's Radio Weblog]