Huge racial disparities persist despite slow infant mortality drop
Despite a 13% drop in the national infant mortality rate over nearly a decade, there remains a stubborn gap between the rates for black Americans and other racial groups as well as between some Southern states and the rest of the country. The most proven and promising...
Physicians Sharing Notes with Patients is a Win-Win
Can sharing physician notes with patients have a positive effect on care? That is the basic question behind the OpenNotes movement, which sprung out of a three-city pilot program in Boston, Seattle, and rural Pennsylvania and has since gone on to give more than five...
Prestigious Healthcare Experts Join OpenNotes Movement
National health care leaders, John Santa, MD, MPH, Homer Chin, MD, MS, and Amy Fellows, MPH, have joined the OpenNotes team. The three bring decades of expertise in information technology and population health to the expanding OpenNotes movement. OpenNotes is a...
Community Health Needs Assessment identifies health improvements and challenges in Lane County
Better access to health insurance from the rollout of the Affordable Care Act is the biggest change in Lane County’s health picture from three years ago, according to the newly released 2015 Community Health Needs Assessment. About 6 percent of county residents were...
Patients push for transparency: OpenNotes at Northwest Permanente
OpenNotes is a nationwide movement encouraging clinicians to share clinical notes and visit summaries with their patients. The formal initiative was introduced in 2010 and three health systems underwent a trial run of the initiative: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
Exhibit: No Harm Intended Explores Lane County’s Medical History
An exhibit at the Lane County Historical Museum in Eugene offers a portrait of health care during the pivotal century between 1840 and 1940. Read about it...
The Next Phase of the OpenNotes Movement
Read more about the expansion of OpenNotes from 5 Million nationally to 50 Million. We Can Do Better has been subcontracted to be a part of this movement. Ask us if you want to learn more about what we are doing here in the...
Consumers alerted to potential Moda-related scams
Salem — The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) urges consumers to protect themselves from potential scams in light of the uncertainty caused by the financial troubles of Moda Health Plan Inc. DCBS is aware of multiple incidents in which...
Growing OpenNotes in Oregon and beyond
We Can Do Better is excited to announce we received grant support from the Oregon Health Authority's Office of Health IT to further spread the work of the Northwest OpenNotes Consortium in Oregon with the goal of more engaged, healthier Oregonians. This funding is...
How High Is America’s Health Care Cost Burden?
Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Tracking Survey, July–August 2015 One-quarter of privately insured working-age adults have high health care cost burdens relative to their incomes in 2015, according to the Commonwealth Fund Health Care...
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