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Simple Solutions Keep Coming Out on Top

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Right before Christmas, Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a prolific writer at The New Yorker who writes about the problems and challenges of modern medicine, published a book titled The Checklist Manifesto–How to get things right.

The gist of the book is that by employing simple checklists in hospitals, procedures are performed with fewer complications and patients get healthier. Gawande has been making the rounds on The Daily Show, PBS’ News Hour with Jim Lehrer, NPR and other media outlets promoting his book and discussing the remarkable success checklists can produce. Read the rest of this entry →

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‘Simply… Engage the Patients’

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago I was in Boston to attend the 2009 Connected Health Symposium. Despite the restrictions on folks travel budgets, attendance was larger than last year, with more than 1000 healthcare industry attendees, and much of the conversation—unsurprisingly—was about the uncertainty regarding upcoming healthcare reform.

But while healthcare reform provided a common thread of uncertainty, there were two major themes that surfaced, on which almost everyone agreed. Those themes continued to come up in both the presentations I attended, as well as my hallway conversations:

1. It’s all about patient engagement
2. Simplicity is the key to success

Clearly, these two themes have been part of the Pharos Innovations approach and business model from the beginning. I found it gratifying that others in our industry, including payers and industry thought leaders concurred. Read the rest of this entry →

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