Steve Wilkins

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The Traditional Patient “Sick Role” Is A Major Barrier To High Quality Health Care

Each of us wears many different “hats” throughout the course of the…

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Patient Engagement Is A Physician-Patient Communication Challenge…Not A Health Information Technology Challenge

Physicians, hospitals and other providers are being misled by  industry pundits claiming…

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When It Comes To Patient Engagement…It’s The Little Things That Count

I did a dumb thing a couple of weeks ago.   I fell…

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Patient-Centered Communications – Does “Lack of Time” Justify Physician Reluctance To Adopt It?

I talk with lot of physicians about the need to improve the…

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Will Information Technology Squeeze Physicians Out Of Their Central Role In Health Care?

Not by a long shot if patients have anything to say about…

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Engaging Patients In Care Planning – What Providers Say And How They Say It Matters

The following is s post by Carolyn Thomas, a fellow 2012 Stanford…

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Patient Portals. PHRs, & On-line Decision-Support Tools Alone Will Not Lead To Greater Patient Engagement

Patient engagement is getting a lot of attention these days, particularly in…

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Doctor/Patient Relationship: Too Much Information, Too Little Communication

One of the biggest problems with health care today is that there…

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Can Long-Term Physician-Patient Relationships Be Bad For Your Health?

I wonder how many problems like non-compliance, usually attributed to “poor patient behavior,”…

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Why We Aren’t Ready for Patient-Centered Care

The follow is a guest post by Aanand D. Naik, MD  @empoweringpts.We…

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