Category: Patient Outcomes
Measuring, improving and sustaining the results that matter to patients.
Articles
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Remote Monitoring Works When Someone Is Accountable for the Alert
The device is the easy part. The hard part is the named human who sees an out-of-range reading on a Friday afternoon.
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Social Risk Data Is Only Useful If Something Happens Next
Screening for food insecurity without a referral pathway is a way of documenting a problem you have decided not to solve.
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Medication Reconciliation Fails at the Handoff, Not the Interview
The list is usually accurate when it is taken. It degrades in the gap between settings, and that gap is where the harm occurs.
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Patient Portals Do Not Fix Engagement
Activation rates measure account creation. They say very little about whether anyone is engaged with their care.
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