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Dennis OConnor

Health Literacy - CCMI - 0 views

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patient-centered collaboration health-literacy

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  • Dennis OConnor on 15 Dec 19
     
    "Empowering patients to have greater agency in, and control over health decisions. A patient's health literacy is their ability to read, understand and use health care information to make informed decisions and modify behaviours that affect their personal healthcare needs. Promoting health literacy among patients creates a more collaborative care environment, one that empowers patients to have greater agency in, and control over, their own care decisions. CCMI's Health Literacy programs introduce participants to concepts that support and emphasize the importance of being able to support patients and communicate clearly so that patients and family members can truly participate in care. Participants will gain an understating of Health Literacy concepts and learn practical skills for engaging with patients to ensure clear and effective communication."
Dennis OConnor

MIT SF Grand Hack 2019 - MIT Hacking Medicine - 0 views

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hacking Camille-Nebeker

shared by Dennis OConnor on 02 Oct 19 - No Cached
  • Interested in disrupting healthcare? Join MIT Hacking Medicine as we bring the MIT Grand Hack to San Francisco! This is the weekend to brainstorm and build innovative solutions with hundreds of like-minded engineers, clinicians, designers, developers and business people. Within our multi-theme event, there is sure to be a healthcare challenge for everyone! Interested in helping out? You can partner with us, become a sponsor, or sign up to be a mentor! Email sfgrandhack@mit.edu for more information!Twitter Hashtag: #SFGrandHack2019 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  • Dennis OConnor on 02 Oct 19
     
    "With approximately 133M Americans (more than 40% of the US population) suffering from one or more chronic diseases, the healthcare community is looking for more effective and efficient ways to manage chronic diseases. Part of that pursuit is in finding sustainable ways to help patients better understand their conditions and manage their health by empowering patients, connecting them to information, care, and therapies in ways they want. Join fellow innovators to work on a challenging, multi-faceted, meaningful opportunity to advance clinical care, quality of life, and outcomes for nearly half the US. How can we improve patient literacy and clinical understanding? How do we help patients feel more in-control of their medical care? What can be done to help patients understand when and where they should seek care? These are just some of the pain points begging for thoughtful, tech-enabled solutions."
Dennis OConnor

What We Do | The Schwartz Center - 0 views

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palliative compassion healthcare-literacy

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  • Dennis OConnor on 05 Aug 20
     
    Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: Our Mission To put compassion at the heart of healthcare through programs, education and advocacy. Our Vision: A world where all who seek and provide healthcare experience compassion.
Dennis OConnor

Empowering patients and reducing inequities: is there potential in sharing clinical not... - 0 views

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medical-records open-notes patient-experience sharing agency

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  • engages them actively in their care, improves their sense of control over their health and enhances safety.
  • older, less educated, non-white or whose first language is not English report even greater benefits than do their counterparts
  • we suggest that open notes may, over time, prove important in the care of patients who are at risk of experiencing healthcare disparities.
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  • in the USA, the likelihood of receiving an access code to activate health portals is significantly lower for minorities, the uninsured, non-English speakers and older patients.11
  • Research suggests that negative implicit biases can affect the quality of health interactions and are associated with fewer signals of support and empathy towards patients representing some disadvantaged demographic groups, including racial and ethnic minorities, low-income, less educated and older patients.1
  • Open notes might be viewed as extending the visit, potentially thereby elongating and strengthening patient–physician interactions before and after the pressures of the clinical encounter.
  • investigators found that patients who were non-white or less educated reported more benefits than their counterparts:
  • Although some health organisations provide portals in a range of languages, clinical notes are typically offered in one language only.
  • access to open notes appears to help some patients who speak another primary language by allowing them, or a care partner, to read and recall information.
  • 77% (357/462) reported reading their notes as extremely important for remembering their care plan,
  • It is estimated that, on average, patients do not recall about half of the health information communicated during visits, with this figure likely higher among those with lower levels of health literacy.2
  • health literacy is now recognised as a driver of health disparities.
  • By offering patients access to records that document what was discussed during visits, open notes may provide a novel forum for augmenting health literacy among some patients.
  • As one patient noted: “I like my summaries because I can go back and revisit them”.1
  • in a large study of patients who read notes, 38% (8588/22 753) reported sharing them with others, predominantly family members
  • Limitations
  • Open notes are becoming increasingly common, and preliminary data suggest they may hold particular benefits for vulnerable patient populations
  • Second, as preliminary evidence suggests, it is possible that open notes may increase trust between patients and clinicians, reduce transmission of bias and increase patient engagement, especially among vulnerable patient populations
  • co-creation of medical notes holds promise and is currently under investigation
Dennis OConnor

The Need for a Serious Illness Digital Ecosystem (SIDE) to Improve Outcomes for Patient... - 0 views

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palliative healthcare-literacy

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  • Dennis OConnor on 05 Aug 20
     
    Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: Serious Illness Digital Ecosystem (SIDE) is the intentional aggregation of disparate digital and mobile health technologies into a single system that connects all of the actors involved in serious illness patient care. The 5 pillars of a SIDE are: Identification, Education, Engagement, Service Delivery, and Remote Monitoring. To me, this is just a preliminary and pragmatic first step(s). It also misses or misrepresents large care gaps, e.g. framing as the need for education/engagement of patients vs directing to physicians/providers. That said, I think there are still some useful constructs for us here for digital infrastructure.
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