Our Stories, Ourselves

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Frankel
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Appreciative Inquiry ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Emergent Design ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Relationship Centered

This chapter aims to combine traditional approaches to analyzing narratives with strategies for using them to change organizational culture; introduce the concepts of emergent design and appreciative inquiry as a framework for uncovering and disseminating an organization’s core narrative; and describe several innovative organization-level activities that used emergent design and appreciative inquiry narratives to change the culture of a large medical school. Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) is currently the largest medical school in North America. In January of 2003, the Relationship-Centered Care Initiative (RCCI) was launched, with an audacious goal: to change the culture of the school and reverse some of the negative trends it had been experiencing over the past decade. Relationship-Centered Care is an expanded form of patient-centered care, which focuses on including the values, attitudes, and preferences of patients as they seek and receive care.

scholarly journals The Medical School of the Catholic University of Croatia: Principles, Goals, Standards and Organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Damir Sapunar ◽  
Matko Marušić ◽  
Livia Puljak ◽  
Ivica Grković ◽  
Mario Malički ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Original System ◽  
Social Accountability ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
European Standards

<p>The aim of the study was to present the concept on which the School of Medicine at the Catholic University of Croatia (CUC) will be established. The new School will alleviate the shortage of physicians in Croatia and introduce an innovative form of medical education focused on principles of patient-centered care and social accountability. At the same time, the students will acquire all relevant competencies and levels of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required by current evidence in medical education, European standards and guidelines for quality assurance at higher education institutions. The four pillars of the CUC Medical School are: 1) distributed medical education that involves health institutions outside major medical centers, 2) the concept of transformative learning, 3) teaching and practicing evidence-based medicine, and 4) implementation of quality management principles supported by information technology solutions for effective management of learning, research and practice. The overall aim of the CUC School of Medicine is to educate and train physicians capable of using best available medical evidence to deliver economically sustainable healthcare that can improve equity and health outcomes in the communities they serve, particularly those that are currently underserved.</p><p><strong>Conclusion. </strong>The proposed programme is introducing an original system of modern medical education that insists on developing humanistic aspects of medicine, patient-centred care and social accountability, while maintaining all competencies and knowledge levels that a physician should have according to the current understanding of medical education.</p>

A Computational Perspective of Knowledge Empowerment for Healthcare Decision Making

2017 ◽  
pp. 134-155
Author(s):  
Timothy Jay Carney
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Healthcare Decision ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Healthcare Decision Making ◽  
Computational Perspective ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
The Relationship

People in a variety of settings can be heard uttering the phrase that “knowledge is power” or the relatively equivalent concept that “information is power.” However, the research literature in particular lacks a simple and standardized way to examine the relationship between knowledge and power. There is a lack operational quantitative definitions of this relationship to adequately support the building of complex computational models used in addressing some longstanding public health and healthcare delivery issues like differential access to care, inequitable care and treatment, institutional bias, disparities in health outcomes, and eliminating barriers to patient-centered care. The objective of this discussion is to present a relational algorithm that can be used in both conceptual discussions on knowledge empowerment modeling, as well as in the building of computational models that want to explore the variable of knowledge empowerment within computer simulation experiments.

A Computational Perspective of Knowledge Empowerment for Healthcare Decision Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
Timothy Jay Carney
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Healthcare Decision ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
Healthcare Decision Making ◽  
Computational Perspective ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
The Relationship

People in a variety of settings can be heard uttering the phrase that “knowledge is power” or the relatively equivalent concept that “information is power.” However, the research literature in particular lacks a simple and standardized way to examine the relationship between knowledge and power. There is a lack operational quantitative definitions of this relationship to adequately support the building of complex computational models used in addressing some longstanding public health and healthcare delivery issues like differential access to care, inequitable care and treatment, institutional bias, disparities in health outcomes, and eliminating barriers to patient-centered care. The objective of this discussion is to present a relational algorithm that can be used in both conceptual discussions on knowledge empowerment modeling, as well as in the building of computational models that want to explore the variable of knowledge empowerment within computer simulation experiments.

Towards Patient-Centered Care

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanita Dawson ◽  
Bengisu Tulu ◽  
Thomas A. Horan
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Provider ◽  
Patient Centered Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter provides a conceptual foundation by exploring the existing literature on traditional healthcare, patient-centered healthcare, and the progression of e-health in enabling the movement towards patient-centered care. This chapter also discusses enhancing the relationship between the patient and the healthcare provider through e-health. We conclude with a discussion of the future of patient-centered e-health and future research opportunities in this area.

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