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Leaning Tower of Babel – Give me my Damn Data?

Today I attended a meeting with 9 people, including me, speaking 5 languages - Mandarin,…

DannyAugust 24, 2014

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Should you bring someone with you to your next doctor’s appointment?

Should you bring someone with you to your next doctor's appointment? If you're asking, the…

DannyMay 11, 2014

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Driving your own health journey

How is it that people develop and learn to drive their own life, their own…

DannyFebruary 9, 2014

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Disclosure – Revealing health issues

Disclosure: The act of revealing something. How does disclosure impact life for the disabled, chronically…

DannyFebruary 3, 2014

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A Powerful Union: Relationships within Health Teams

The relationship between health team members, especially people and their clinicians and caregivers, frequently arises…

DannyOctober 13, 2013

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Shared Decision Making Month

According the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation shared decision making (SDM) is a collaborative process that allows patients…

DannyMarch 14, 2013

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Book review: Far from the Tree

Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity covers stories of diverse…

DannyFebruary 26, 2013

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Magic levers of cultural change

I'm traveling these days in many bands of committed people and groups striving to improve the…

DannyJanuary 24, 2013

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Data, information, knowledge, wisdom, action

I have written about data and research in recent posts. Readers generally understand about data…

DannyJanuary 7, 2013

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Funding Impacts Patient-Centered Research

I wrote about Patient-Centered research in a previous post: Just-In Time Decisions. A different version of that post…

DannyJanuary 2, 2013