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The featured Innovations describe two programs that delivered patient-centered care to vulnerable populations, thereby improving the patient experience and enhancing access to appropriate care. The featured QualityTools provide clinicians and other stakeholders with resource guides that support a patient-centered approach to medication management.

Take Home: UMass Medical School and WPI have developed an app that can detect atrial fibrillation.  This moves connected and mobile health closer to reality.  The really important development with this approach might allow us to treat patients who have AF intermittently (paroxysmal) differently than we currently do.  Because we are worried about stroke, patients now get blood thinners all the time because we are concerned that they will have recurrences without knowing about it.  With this technology, in the future, we might see validation of a strategy that allows use of blood thinners when patients are in AF only, sometimes called a pill in the pocket.

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"While telemedicine may seem a cold and impersonal approach to patient care, physicians say it's exactly the opposite. And they are quickly embracing it as a way to foster a more intimate relationship with patients and educate them about treatments prior to office visits."

Good article on e-Health, EMR, and social media for healthcare

This guide, for hospital administrators and emergency department leaders, provides step-by-step instructions for planning and implementing patient flow improvement strategies to ease emergency department crowding.

The featured Innovations describe one hospital program that provides multidisciplinary team support to patients and families who experience an unexpected clinical event, and another program that provides support to clinicians who are the "secondary victims" of unexpected events.

Patient Centered Goals established by a group multi-discipline experts.

"The Blausen Human Atlas is an ideal interactive resource for professional, patient and consumer education. It contains 150 common medical treatments and conditions and combines 3D animation (approximately one to two minutes in length) with accompanying narration."

This iPhone / iPad app has video and graphic representations of body systems in a slick 3D interface.

Using mannequins that respond like real patients, this Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center is crucial in shaping field-leading medical providers. Go inside Christiana Care's training center and see how you can prepare yourself for a rewarding medical career. Simulation studio is a training area to look and feel like a hospital

Found the simulation interesting as the Christiana Care's training center is set up to look like a hospital from ED to OR to ICUs and a delivery room.

"Health Literacy Upon completion of this module, you should be able to: Define health literacy Identify common concerns related to health literacy Describe low health literacy and its impact on society Review common health literacy assessment tools Formulate a plan to better communicate health information to patients in your practice"

While this health literacy resource was created for physician assistants, it could be used broadly.

Find hundreds of health care innovations listed by topic including patient population, clinical category, setting of care, etc.

The program significantly reduced staff injuries and nearly eliminated lost and restricted staff work days associated with these injuries at Bay Pines. In addition, other Veterans Health Administration sites have also experienced significant reductions in staff injuries since implementing the program.

More about the Google Body Browser, including the author's take on why it is a good patient education tool. I like the idea that there could be overlays that demonstrate particular diseases or conditions and that it could someday be linked to an electronic health record.

Labyrinth is an experimental educational pathway authoring and delivery system being developed at the University of Edinburgh along with a number of other partners. Users are presented with set or randomly selected choices as they move through a Labyrinth, each of which has a consequence for the user. Examples include virtual patients, quizzes, games and tutorials.

Examples of case studies with

Learn how linkages between clinical practices and community organizations improved the delivery of preventive services.

'CNA' stands for 'Certified Nursing Assistant'. It refers to the nursing helper who assists the doctors and registered nurses during various operations as well as for patient care in nursing homes and hospitals. Though being a CNA is not a glorious job, it can definitely be a good option for a substantial career in allied health care field.

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"The use of simulation in graduate and undergraduate medical education and in team training has been demonstrated to improve trainee satisfaction. Multiple studies also have shown improvements in measures of provider self-efficacy and confidence."

A good video demonstration of VoiceThread

After looking at voice thread I started thinking of ways in which I could utilize this technology in teaching my undergraduate students and it dawned on me that I could post a picture of the Amish and ask my students to share comments about the amish culture which would be useful in facilitating optimal outcomes with clients. At the graduate level, I was thinking of posting a diagram of a nursing model and asking the students to give an example of an application of the model to a client scenario. And in teaching nurse practitioners, I could post a picture of a patient and tell the story then ask students to identify a possible differential with rational. With 6 students in a clinical, 6 possible differentials could be generated from viewing a picture of the client and listening to the story in context.