Across Canada, many health care organizations solicit the input of patient and family advisers. This is a trend that we're excited about as a way to increase the patient voice in health care.
Right now, patient and family advisers function within individual organizations. At the Patients' Association, we see an opportunity for advisers to also engage with a larger, nation-wide community through which they could:
Patient engagement in health care appears to be entering a new phase. The question for many providers and researchers is now, “How can we best help patients become more active participants in health care?â€
Last week there was an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that stated admiration for the Cuban healthcare system - A Different Model –Medical Care in Cuba. This is a noteworthy event for many reasons.
Check out a new video series titled 'Open Meetings: Exploring the Patient Perspective.' Watch the first video: 'Key Performance Indicators for Patient Centred Care | Open Meeting: January 17, 2013'
Our friends at Alberta Health Services (AHS) have been taking great steps toward improving the patient experience. Recently Willow Brocke, Director of Patient Engagement at AHS, shared these evidence-based, leading practices with us. They're called Practical Wisdom Tools, and you can find them at the bottom of this blog post.
This week the New England Journal of Medicine published an article by Dr. Harlan Krumholz that introduces the Post Hospital Syndrome.
Thunder Bay, ON, Wednesday December 5, 2012 – For the first time ever residents in Northwestern Ontario were given the opportunity to nominate their physician for a Patients’ Choice Award. The Patients’ Choice Award honours two physicians who have demonstrated exceptional care in the community.
TORONTO - The clock radio seemed innocuous enough, a typical addition to any hospital room. Hidden inside the clock, however, was a video camera that recorded doctors and nurses as they worked around the patient, footage that became exhibit Number 1 in a complaint about allegedly shoddy care at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre...