Category Archives: Physician-Patient Communication

Physician-Patient Communication

Back to Basics: Could Improved Patient-Provider Communications be the Remedy Healthcare Needs?

Dealing with an illness or injury is overwhelming for patients and families, who must learn all they can about an unfamiliar condition, make treatment decisions, manage medications, and more, all while stressed with the change in health status. My son Zachary was 17 when diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. It was heart-wrenching and often […]

Physician-Patient Communication

Patient Engagement: a Patient or a Physician Challenge?

As we enter 2015, healthcare providers everywhere continue their relentless pursuit of the Holy Grail of healthcare – patient engagement. Spurred on by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Meaningful Use and an ever-expanding health IT industry, hospitals, medical groups and physicians this year are on pace to invest even more money on […]



Stephen Wilkins, MPH Steve Wilkins, MPH, is the author of Mind the Gap, an evidence-based blog aimed at improving how physicians communicate with and engage their patients beginning in the exam room. He is also the founder of the Adopt One! Challenge which challenge physicians to commit to developing one new patient-centered communication skill in 2014. Steve has over 25 years in working with health plans, hospitals and physicians to engage, empower and excite patients and consumers. Website: www.mindthegap.smarthealthmessaging.com Twitter: @Healthmessaging LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwilkins

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Physician-Patient Communication

OpenNotes: the Empathy Catalyst that’s Spurring a Revolution in Care

It is with great joy I heard the OpenNotes Collaborative was named institutional winner of the John Q. Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement, at the NPSF Patient Safety Congress in May, 2014. In our 24 by 7 ecosystem, we often miss the ability to prioritize the connection between people, the real connections that […]

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Ajay Sharma, MBA, CSSBB, FHIMSS Ajay Sharma is the Principal of Inspirus Consulting, LLC, a consultancy firm dedicated to true organizational advisory and strategy. He has over 22 years of experience working with customers and has been in IT consulting and systems integration since 1997. He has worked for global systems integrators and has been an Ambulatory Project Manager at Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, responsible for development of speciality clinical progress notes and an IT Program Manager at UC Health in Cincinnati. Ajay is a HIMSS Fellow (FHIMSS) awarded to him for his contribution towards the advocacy and promotion of Healthcare IT.

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Physician-Patient Communication

Patient Engagement Begins with Better Listening

Republished with permission from SarahBethRN.com. Patient engagement is a trendy topic for healthcare providers – the latest spin terminology for “patient compliance” – as in how do I get patients to follow treatment protocols? Take better care of themselves? Especially now that payment for my services may be negatively affected by bad outcomes and poor […]

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Sarah Beth Cowherd, RN Nurse,blogger,persistent patient, Sarah Beth Cowherd writes about the phenomenal challenges faced in navigating the healthcare system as one with a chronic illness. As a young nurse in 2011, she began blogging about her experience in healthcare, eager to explore how a new generation of nurses were changing the face of healthcare through the use of technology and social media. Soon after launching her blog, she developed a rare autoimmune disease. Now she speaks, as she says,“from the other side of the stethoscope.” You can follow her on SarahBethRN.com.

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