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Jun 21 2020
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Imagine: Leverage Abilities. Access Better Solutions.

By Advocate, Consumer, ePatient, Informaticist, Podcasts

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Create an inclusive, accessible co-working space for aspiring entrepreneurs with disabilities, small startups, or groups that serve the disability community. QuirkLaabs. hollarhype. Puffin Innovations.

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Jan 26 2020
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Accessible Yoga: Honor Your Body

By Advocate, ePatient, Podcasts

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Melissa Reynolds talks Yoga. With chronic pain and fatigue, there’s such a variation.  Some people are always at high levels of pain. Some people vary. There are various stages within fibromyalgia and chronic pain and chronic fatigue. Plus, you have other things going on.  Some people also have arthritis where their chronic pain comes from. Or there are other complexities. You can’t say, “this is how you do yoga for chronic pain.” Key is letting people see that they have choices, so there’s never a push. They don’t need to be aiming for anything. They need to listen to their body and do what jells with their body. What feels nice? For too long, we’ve been told you have to push yourself. You’ve got to get to this point.  This is your goal.  I’m sick of external goals   I want to work on my own goals.

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Feb 16 2013
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Innovation

By Advocate, Leader
Innovation: such a pregnant word. Innovation usually accomplishes something pretty basic – a solution to a problem we know or don’t know we have, a new or long standing problem. Innovation can be a tool, a process, technology, or a service. Innovation includes widespread use of the solution. Setting diagnostic or clinical treatment aside, the health journey for the whole team primarily involves people: behavior and relationships. Innovation in health behavior and relationships leads us to magic levers of best health. This week I heard about primary care teams that weren’t built around the licensed clinicians (physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses) The key people seemed to be the patients, their caregivers, and the offices’ health coaches (5-7 coaches per clinician). Patients have assigned coaches to partner in their health journey and serve as a bridge to services and clinicians. I was hearing about Iora Health and Mass General’s Center for Primary Care Innovation. This could be innovative! It’s a magic lever. Phew!

I say could be because the challenge with so-called innovations such as health coaches is to accomplish  widespread availability. What did it take to nurture that potential innovation and how does it spread? Well, somebody was dissatisfied with the status quo, became an entrepreneur and had the gumption to find or create a space for the idea, process, and service to germinate and flourish. The entrepreneur(s) had to align incentives (funding to develop a test and a payment model to feed the service) in a market that needed and wanted the result. It takes a very different kind of change agent to create and pilot something than spread it.