At every turn, we in health care are being told we must fundamentally change the way we deliver care to the patients who come to us for assistance, advice, and decisions as to how they can, if not maintain health, at least survive in an increasingly burdensome world. Whether referenced as medical home, health care home, advanced primary care, patient-centered approaches, or accountable care organizations, it all sounds the same ...
Gary Oftedahl, MD
We need a radical change in the way health care is delivered
Many of you are familiar with the famous "invisible gorilla" experiment, wherein an audience, being instructed to watch closely for the number of passes made with a basketball, fails to see a rather large and deliberate gorilla march slowly across the screen, stop in mid picture and thump its chest.In fact over 1/2 of those tested failed to notice this obvious action. The predominant response is one of suspicion and ...
Is health care ready for the iPad and other new technology?
I think I may have a problem, but it’s not clear exactly what it is, or if it even truly is a concern.I’m not a “techie” so to speak. I have trouble figuring out how to enter the code for my garage door opener without making some fundamental mistake, due to a deficit embedded in my cerebral cortex at some level. But that is not coupled with an associated lack ...
