If you’re anything like me, you may need at least two hands to count the number of healthcare professionals you work with: general practitioner, endocrinologist, diabetes educator, nutritionist, psychologist, ophthalmologist, optometrist, gynecologist… Whew! I can barely keep up with them all and you can bet they don’t keep up with each other.
This lack of structured communication is one of the issues the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) hopes to address. We’ve written about this disruptive…
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Hey, diabetes educators: It’s not about you; it’s about us people with diabetes.
At the annual meeting for the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), I sat in on several sessions focused on teaching CDEs how to be better educators. While it was reassuring to note that the trainers are starting to grasp that they need to talk less and listen more, it also reinforced my perception that the vast majority of diabetes educators really…
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By
AmyT on
February 9, 2010
There is a VERY interesting discussion going on over at the e-Patients.net blog about what the heck “Health 2.0″ actually means, and whether it can really help people.
I’ve spoken and written a lot on Health 2.0 myself, and when people ask me what the term means, I usually give them this simple two-part explanation:
1) Health 2.0 is where new, interactive web technology meets a new, more patient-centered approach to healthcare. It’s giving people…
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