Health Care Decision Making | The Caregiver's Corner

Links shared publicly online about this topic.

  • 667
    total visits

Health Care Decision Making | The Caregiver's Corner

sandiegocaregiversblog.com

Three questions that often arise during emergency situations or end-of-life care and what caregivers need to understand to make health care decisions.

View full resource at sandiegocaregiversblog.com

Tags: Emergency, Healthcare, Healthy Living, Caregiving, First Aid and Emergency

  • Share

Most Recently Shared on December 11, 2010 at 12:10 am By:

SanDiegoHospice San Diego Hospice

Appreciate u passing along - RT @GriefHealing Understanding Health Care Decision Making http://bit.ly/fRjAP7 #caregiving #hospice #hpm

1 year ago...

Also Shared By:

Marty Tousley Marty Tousley

mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems - HIMSS

ebooks.himss.org — “HIMSS, mHealth: From Smartphone to Smart Systems provides a high level and comprehensive survey of the emergence of mobile technology healthcare. This book looks beyond the already-popular devices and apps associated with mHealth, exploring the major role this technology could play as healthcare steers inexorably toward an architecture in which key decision making occurs at the point-of-care. In its fullView full resource at ebooks.himss.org

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 26, 2012 at 9:04 pm By:

jeffbrandt Jeff Brandt Medical Technology, Health Executive, and Health IT

Our ebook is available mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems - HIMSS http://t.co/3loMXpIY

2 weeks ago...

National Healthcare Decisions Day Highlights Need for Advance Healthcare Decision Making - HCA Today Blog

hcatodayblog.com — “What would happen if you suddenly became a hospital patient unable to communicate? National Healthcare Decisions Day reminds us to plan ahead.View full resource at hcatodayblog.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 16, 2012 at 9:00 pm By:

ONAcom OncologyNurseAdvisor Medical Publisher, Oncology, Nursing, and Medical Education

RT @HCAhealthcare National Healthcare Decisions Day highlights need for advance healthcare decision making. http://t.co/MeeyjzF7

3 weeks ago...

Can Patients Make Good Decisions? - Forbes

forbes.com — “Today is National Health Care Decisions Day. This is a reminder to get your affairs in order while you still have the brain to do so. But I wonder - do most people really have a clue how to make their end of life decisions?View full resource at forbes.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 16, 2012 at 2:52 pm By:

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | Abstract | Evaluating the impact of patients' online access to doctors' visit notes: designing and executing the OpenNotes project

biomedcentral.com — “Providers and policymakers are pursuing strategies to increase patient engagement in health care. Increasingly, online sections of medical records are viewable by patients though seldom are clinicians' visit notes included. We designed a one-year multi-site trial of online patient accessible office visit notes, OpenNotes. We hypothesized that patients and primary care physicians (PCPs) would want it to continue and that OpenNotes would not lead to significant disruptions to doctors' practices.View full resource at biomedcentral.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 14, 2012 at 11:00 am By:

Hlth_Literacy Health Literacy Medical School

Eval Impact of Patients' Online Access to MDs' Visit Notes: Designing & Executing the OpenNotes Project http://t.co/zERGhxpX

4 weeks ago...

5th Annual National Healthcare Decisions Day - The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

nhpco.org — “NHPCO is dedicated to promoting and maintaining quality care for terminally ill persons and their families, and to making hospice an integral part of the U.S. health care system.View full resource at nhpco.org

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 12, 2012 at 9:09 pm By:

NHPCO_news NHPCO News Health Organization

5 Days until National Healthcare Decisions Day #NHDD - Take steps to make your healthcare wishes known. #hospice #hpm http://t.co/pRKuIUD4

4 weeks ago...

CareEngine System | ActiveHealth Management | Life-Saving. Cost-Saving.

activehealthmanagement.com — “ActiveHealth is an information-driven care management company that enables doctors and patients to work together to make better clinical decisions, one patient at a time.View full resource at activehealthmanagement.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 12, 2012 at 8:12 pm By:

medicity Medicity Health Business

CareEngine was created by our partner ActiveHealth Management in 1998! http://t.co/63gYx5CR

4 weeks ago...

Levindale Town Center Presents’ Speakers Series: End of Life Decisions | LifeBridge Health Blogs

lifebridgeblogs.org — “An advance directive is one of the most effective tools to ensure that end of life care is what you want it to be is by signing an advance directive.View full resource at lifebridgeblogs.org

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 9, 2012 at 3:07 pm By:

LBHealth LifeBridge Health Hospital

Making end of life decisions while you’re healthy guarantees your care if you can’t talk. Get the scoop at Levindale: http://t.co/895MfhvM

4 weeks ago...

AGA Quarterly - Practice April 2012 • American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)

gastro.org — “AGA Quarterly - Practice April 2012 • American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)View full resource at gastro.org

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on April 6, 2012 at 8:50 pm By:

AmerGastroAssn AGA Medical Society

AGA institutes advocacy campaign to address the current drug shortage epidemic: http://t.co/6QFXpwE9

1 month ago...

National Academy for State Health Policy releases report “Shared Decision Making Advancing Patient-Centered Care through State and Federal Implementation” | Shared Decision Making

shareddecisions.mayoclinic.org — “National Academy for State Health Policy releases report “Shared Decision Making Advancing Patient-Centered Care through State and Federal Implementation” | Shared Decision MakingView full resource at shareddecisions.mayoclinic.org

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on March 29, 2012 at 7:22 pm By:

vmontori Victor Montori, MD Internist, Research, Endocrinologist, Physician, and Doctor

Report points at failure to justify shared decision making based on cost or variation in care in implementing #SDM; http://t.co/UXhkl04o

1 month ago...

Lowery Smiles: Keeping your smile bright | NBC17.com

www2.nbc17.com — “Dr. Siti Lowery of Lowery Smiles shows examples of beverages that can stain your teeth and explains how to improve a stained smile. All that is good begins with a SMILE. When you visit our office, your smile is our top priority.  Our entire team is dedicated to providing you with the personalized, gentle care that you deserve. Part of our commitment to serving our patients includes providing information that helps them to make more informed decisions about their oral health needs.  ThiView full resource at www2.nbc17.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on March 27, 2012 at 8:36 pm By:

Peter Saul: Let’s talk about dying | Video on TED.com

ted.com — “TED Talks We can’t control if we’ll die, but we can “occupy death,” in the words of Dr. Peter Saul. At TEDxNewy he calls on us to make clear our preferences for end of life care -- and suggests two questions for starting the conversation.View full resource at ted.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on March 25, 2012 at 4:12 pm By:

andyatFAD Andy McPhee Nurse

This is a tremendous TED discussion on how we're dying these days and why we all, but especially health care... http://t.co/c87nOX68

1 month ago...

Long-distance caregiving | Richmond Times-Dispatch

www2.timesdispatch.com — “Providing care for a family member who lives far away can be challenging. Concerns about your loved one's safety, nutrition and health may seem overwhelming, and the inability to be with them on a regular basis makes it difficult to feel as though you are contributing.View full resource at www2.timesdispatch.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on March 25, 2012 at 7:27 am By:

Caregiving_OW Caregiving OW OW Health

Long-distance caregiving: Providing care for a family member who lives far away can be challenging. Concerns abo... http://t.co/08kvUgLH

1 month ago...

Are medical students really that clueless about health care costs? | Unofficial Prognosis, Scientific American Blog Network

blogs.scientificamerican.com — “A few months ago, I went to a talk by a health economist. “How many of you think cost will factor into your decision-making with patients?” ...View full resource at blogs.scientificamerican.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on March 23, 2012 at 9:46 pm By:

sciam Scientific American Health Magazine

Are medical students really that clueless about health care costs? http://t.co/7gBoBk3m

2 months ago...

Gundersen Health's program seen as advanced care model - Related Stories - Hospice and Palliative Medicine SmartBrief

smartbrief.com — “Gundersen Health System's new book "Having Your Own Say" recommends patients and families make end-of-life decisions to avoid unwanted treatment while ensuring comfort and pain management. The system, based in La Crosse, Wis., is part of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, and its Respecting …View full resource at smartbrief.com

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on March 23, 2012 at 5:47 pm By:

AAHPM AAHPM Health Organization

Gundersen Health's program seen as advanced care model http://t.co/sMjY7QcW #hpm

2 months ago...

Longer looks: Health literacy's effect on costs

news-medical.net — “In many families, women are the health care decision makers. When children go for their checkups, we are often the ones who make the appointment and sit in the room holding their hand. When elderly parents see a new specialist, we are the ones carrying the folder with all their health information. ... In the past, this also meant that many women would take care of their own health last. By the time they got around to it, women found a system stacked against them. But thanks to the health care laView full resource at news-medical.net

  • View Related
  • Share

Most Recently Shared on March 23, 2012 at 8:47 am By:

NewsMedical News-Medical.Net Health News

Longer looks: Health literacy's effect on costs: In many families, women are the health care decision makers. Wh... http://t.co/ymhJ26mz

2 months ago...

Advertisement