tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7255776707298393367.post6612064777795609905..comments2023-10-09T06:23:42.682-07:00Comments on Saving Money and Surviving the Healthcare Crisis: Empowered Patient - Is This What Americans Really Want? Probably Not.Davis Liu, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320315964654209559noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7255776707298393367.post-38427145331104026022014-04-26T06:20:33.804-07:002014-04-26T06:20:33.804-07:00I am in total agreement. The system needs to impro...I am in total agreement. The system needs to improve in order to drive healthcare costs down and improve patient engagement. One problem we have identified is the use of Web Search Engines for self-assessment of symptoms. There are many inherent problems with this approach but rather than discouraging such behavior we felt compelled to provide online diagnosers with the appropriate tool. So we created Symptify an algorithmic engine created specifically for self-assessment of symptoms. Check us out at https://www.symptify.com/<br />Sincerely,<br />Jalil Thurber MDJalil Thurberhttps://www.symptify.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7255776707298393367.post-7020547628567772072011-02-04T10:46:01.553-08:002011-02-04T10:46:01.553-08:00Hi Becky - thanks for the note. I think we agree....Hi Becky - thanks for the note. I think we agree. As for the traffic analogy as I stated in the post in the press briefing "There [was] no mention of better highway design and signage, rumble strips, crash zones in front of highway off-ramps, guardrails, red traffic light cameras, safer cars with airbags, anti-lock brakes, and better engineering with crumple zones and stronger passenger cages to protect occupants as reasons for a death rate that is the best in sixty years."Davis Liu, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320315964654209559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7255776707298393367.post-84353718302228909102011-02-04T10:15:35.981-08:002011-02-04T10:15:35.981-08:00Empowering patients is a response to the increasin...Empowering patients is a response to the increasing amount of publicity regarding medical errors of all types. The wish is that this will result in decreased errors. I am not sure that this is a guaranteed result. Surely it could lead to more animosity between patient and physician. What really needs to happen is for medicine overall to improve its performance. Medicine must continue to strive for improving all aspects of care, from reducing medication errors, wrong site surgery and to look more definetly at check lists in all areas of medicine.<br /><br />A physician finds an abnormal lab result and fails to follow up appropriatly. This may result from failing to use an EMR to flag the result, no EMR available to be used, or a poor memory that does not recall the abnormal result.<br /><br />A patient undergoing a surgical procedure because inadequate pre-op evaluation was performed. The patient undergoing a second procedure to reverse the first procedure.<br /><br />These types of errors, both true and actual events, are part of the reason that patients feel they cannot trust their physician and are encouraged to investigate their own medical care.<br /><br />The assumption regarding decrease in MVA fatalaties ia less drunk driving and more seat belts. What about the improvement in auto safety, construction, air bags, etc.<br /><br />I think patients will continue to empower themselves.Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15101418717896440972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7255776707298393367.post-66219563053534833922010-10-15T12:10:44.185-07:002010-10-15T12:10:44.185-07:00Great article and a nicely bombastic title. You ar...Great article and a nicely bombastic title. You are absolutely right that simply asking patients to be more involved is not the same as tweaking the system to set patients up for success. Your post reminds me of an article on our blog by David Rose, the acclaimed inventor and entrepreneur, about ways to create smarter tools like e-bottle caps to greatly improve medication adherence.<br /><br />http://engagingthepatient.com/2010/03/09/take-as-directed-the-psychology-of-medication-adherence/Nick Lloyd, Emmi Solutionshttp://engagingthepatient.comnoreply@blogger.com