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Listening to your Patients for better Healthcare Podcast

This week we sat down with Dr. Ron Dixon and Dr. David Judge who have an obsession with listening to their patients. Those of you who are patients (that’s all of us) the idea of being listened to by your physician probably sounds refreshing. Ron and David are two physicians who want to help shape a new healthcare model that fits you by listening. They are pushing forward a healthcare delivery model that fits the realities of a patients life and the economy.

Dr. Judge tells us about his focus on developing a clinical space that is safe, effective and open to experimentation. You can’t design a more effective physical space for improved patient care without getting hands on and trying things out.  He tells us how you have to actually build the space for patient care and be flexible enough to adapt and disseminate what you learn.

Dr. Dixon tells us about why physicians getting paid to email their patients or webcast with them will lower the cost of healthcare overall and hopefully be a better fit for some.


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Small Things Move Quickly - Updates in Global Health

Last week Dr. Kris Olson and Aya Caldwell of the CIMIT Global Health Initiative gave us a view into their approach on solving neonatal asphyxia through sustainable training in the developing world. What I love about their work here is that they are not changing a culture or imposing new paradigms, instead they are local capacity building where the midwives themselves came up with their model of sustainability.

In short, Kris and Aya have helped midwives in Aceh Indonesia utilize a tool that already existed to them, but wasn't being implemented properly. Simple training and simple technology can now become a badge of honor. This was a big problem with a small solution and from their presentation one thing became very clear: Small things move quickly.

A few key points to remember on this topic:

• Birth asphyxia (failure to breathe) is the third leading cause of neonatal deaths worldwide (1 million deaths/year)
• With proper resuscitation techniques 70-80% of these deaths can be averted
• Midwives in many areas of Indonesia have not received any continuing medical education in 9 years due to the Tsunami and preceding civil conflict

In this 7 minute video Kris and Aya give us a breakdown as to how they did it and where they go from here.

Coming next: We'll be posting a stunning presentation by Tim Prestero of Design That Matters on the Car-Part Incubator. Look for it shortly!

Best,

Mike