By Dr. Cole Stanley On a grey mid-afternoon in British Columbia, a family doctor (we’ll call her Dr. J, a composite of many clinicians we’ve worked with) sat staring at a blank Quality Improvement (QI) form. It was the kind that many physicians …
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When I think back to my first years of practice, I remember a stark contrast between what I knew was possible as a physician, in caring for patients, and the reality I was facing each day. In medical training, for almost …
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By Dr. Lawrence Yang, HDC Medical Director In the spirit of continuous improvement, and true to my QI roots, I’m happy to share some personal stories about my journey from ‘Doctor in the Dark’, to ‘Finding the Light’, and to …
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By Dr. Lawrence Yang, HDC Medical Director In the spirit of continuous improvement, and true to my QI roots, I’m happy to share some personal stories about my journey from ‘Doctor in the Dark’, to ‘Finding the Light’, and to …
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By Dr. Lawrence Yang, HDC Medical Director In the spirit of continuous improvement, and true to my QI roots, I’m happy to share some personal stories about my journey from ‘Doctor in the Dark’, to ‘Finding the Light’, and to …
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As the data hell-evator bounces to a halt one floor down, a black-tuxedoed white-gloved young man with slicked back hair and perfectly symmetrical facial features materializes adjacent to the opening door, smiling perfectly and promptly bowing, his gloved hand waving …
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By Dr. Oona Hayes, HDC Medical Director This is my last installment of MD’s corner. It’s with genuine sadness that I made the difficult decision to resign from my role as co-medical director of the Health Data Coalition (HDC). Between …
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Medical Director Cole Stanley continues his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle Six. You can find the other circles here. A descent to our next level reveals a vast and treacherous sea where too many have …
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Medical Director Cole Stanley continues his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle Five. You can find the other circles here. Descending to our next ring, we can conjure some Soviet era central planning. Here, it’s assumed …
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Medical Director Cole Stanley continues his journey though the Circles of Healthcare Data Hell with Circle Four. You can find the other circles here. Next to this circle that’s somewhat of a subset of Perversion above, where we set numeric …
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