Toolkits Archives:
Let’s share helpful dot phrases
When I was at Northgate seeing some diabetic patients the other day Marty Levine showed me a dot-phrase he had developed that includes patient friendly language explaining the most common things that he and his colleagues often put into After Visit Summaries. Those topics include: What is diabetes? How do I know if my diabetes [...]
Evolution of a Tier 1 Board
I would like to share an enlightening experience I had one recent morning on Workplace Rounds with our Primary Care leadership at Burien. We spent about an hour in good discussion about the state of our clinic as represented graphically on our clinic level (tier 2) data board. These talks are always lively and, though [...]
Watch announcement about medical home toolkits!
www.ghmedicalhome.org Click on the arrow to play. Make sure you hit the volume to hear me talk. Don’t forget to wear those earphones, too. Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = { ‘id’: ‘video0′, ‘name’: ‘video0′}; var flashvars = { [...]
Reminder tools in EPIC
Like most of you out there, I have been struggling to determine what “Medical Home” was and how was it different from what I was doing now? I was recently asked to participate in the RPIW for Virtual Medicine, which was in and of itself a unique learning experience. It was a unique way to [...]
Tom Hanks on Medical Home
Working with clinic and primary care leaders on implementing the medical home finds the question needing a response: these modules are hard and the content of delivering on virtual medicine and disease management is tough and “clunky;” many struggle with the complexity of doing our work differently. The tool kits and binders are too thick [...]


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