Submitting this post from the IHI forum in Nashville. Great conference, particularly the Key Notes with Don Berwick and John Kitzhaber. Attended sessions on the Medical Home, Clinical Decision Support, Collaborative Model, NQF Safe Practices Adoption, Geeky Trends, Real Time Data. Of the sessions, I enjoyed the Medical Home, Collaborative Model and Geeky Trends the most. Geeky is part of the motivation for getting back onto this blog and trying to make this happen more. We'll see...

As far as the Key Notes go, both speakers spent time on Health Care Reform, especially Kitzhaber. His major point is that the current discussion seems to be focused on finance when the issue should really be on changing the model Most in the audience seemed to agree. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the coming months.

Interesting Remarks

clipped from blog.lib.umn.edu 1. My PLoS Medicine article, “How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories.” 2. The Commonwealth Fund analysis on variations in child health care across the US. 3. Another "more care isn't always better care" study - this time in JAMA. 4. Consumer Reports releasing an online tool using Dartmouth Atlas data to allow you to look at aggressive vs. conservative care - comparing hospitals on this scale. Connecting the dots in health care reform news

Start Up

This is my first blog post, an experiment really. At this point I hope to be able to post regularly on my current interests - HealthCare, photography, environmental issues, and living.

I also will use this space to collect and provide access to other resources on these subjects that I find valuable.

Here is my most popular photo on my Flickr account
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jw_alexander_photo/2437888153/

Well, just checked this out at home and it works! I've also added a "weekly picture" feature that I hope to change on a regular basis.