Category Archives: patients

Brooklyn Health Needs Assessment In:
Listen and Share Your POV

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Laura Newman

Tomorrow and Thursday, you have your chance to hear about a Brooklyn Health Needs Assessment that analyzed opinions from more than 700 North and Central Brooklyn residents on their healthcare. Many people involved in this process are dedicated to getting … Continue reading →

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Listen and Share Your POV

Six Outrageous Threats to Labor and The Public’s Health

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Laura Newman

  When public policy undermines the public’s health, patient empowerment is not really on the table. Patients may be well informed, doctors may share unbiased, good information, but if public policy does not support public health, patient empowerment is just … Continue reading →

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Patient Centeredness: Definitions Fuzzy,
Testing, Lawsuits Ahead #ECRI_FDA

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Laura Newman

Panel #2 – Lawyers are going to have a field day with what is patient centeredness. Jane Hyatt Thorpe, JD, Assoc. Research Prof. ACA – Medicare – care individual/population, average. IOM – patient centeredness refers to care – needs, desires … Continue reading →

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Patient Centeredness in Policy & Practice:
Live from ECRI_FDA Meeting

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Laura Newman

Numerous challenges various entities are facing and building patient-centeredness. Panel #1: Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs, Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner, MD, Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, AHRQ, Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, Executive Director, PCORI Hamburg: onslaught of HIV/AIDS epidemic in NYC … Continue reading →

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Live from ECRI_FDA Meeting

What’s the Patient Got to Do with It?

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Laura Newman

Here we are discussing the prostate cancer screening guidelines, but what bothers me is that the patient is brought in as a footnote at the end of the analysis. I find it really dispiriting that there is so much lip … Continue reading →

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