Innovation + Technology = Good Patient Experience
Reporter: Gail S. Thornton
Following are a sampling of several relevant articles comprising health innovation and technology, which may ultimately lead to a good patient experience.
When a health journalist found out her 4-year-old son had a brain tumor, her family faced an urgent choice: proven but punishing rounds of chemotherapy, or a twice-a-day pill of a new “targeted” therapy with a scant track record.
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/genomics-tumor/
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Paying for Tumor Testing
A recent U.S. government decision about coverage of tumor sequencing could affect cancer patients.
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https://www.cancertodaymag.org/Pages/cancer-talk/Paying-for-Tumor-Testing.aspx
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Dr. Elaine Schattner has authored numerous articles on cancer — as a doctor and patient. She is a freelance journalist and former oncologist who lives in New York City. She is writing a book about public attitudes toward cancer.
A life-long patient with scoliosis and other chronic medical conditions, and a history of breast cancer, Elaine’s current interests include physicians’ health, cancer, and medical journalism.
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https://www.elaineschattner.com/
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Speaking Up for Patient Preferences in Cancer Treatment Decisions.
Informed consent should include your input.
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Breast Cancer, Risk And Women’s Imperfect Choices
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A cancer researchers takes cancer personally: Dr. Tony Blau, who started All4Cure, an online platform for myeloma clinicians and researchers to interact directly with patients to come up with a customer treatment plan.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Acts Out: The actress on challenging comedy’s sexism, fighting cancer, and becoming the star of her own show.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/17/julia-louis-dreyfus-acts-out
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Thanks to Wendy Lund, CEO of GCI Health (gcihealth.com) and her team for compiling part of this list.
Interoperability, patient matching could be fixed by smartphone apps, RAND says: Patients need quality information. A physician at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences believes that the healthcare community must improve reports by making them more accessible to patients.
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Sometimes Patients Simply Need Other Patients: Finding a support community is also getting easier, through resources like the Database of Patients’ Experiences, which houses videos of patients speaking about their experiences.
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At These Hotels and Spas, Cancer is No Obstacle to Quality Care: A trend among spas and wellness resorts shows the increasing integration of safe wellness treatment options for cancer patients.
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