Workforce
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 31, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Samuel Little and Victoria Stubbs talked about “creating a brave space” for having difficult conversations [1]. Opening such conversations, which can expose painful pasts and personal vulnerabilities, is difficult but can be a first step in the healing process...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 3, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In the United States, 86 percent of office-based and 94 percent of hospital-based physicians currently use an electronic health record (EHR), incentivized by the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act [1,2]. While...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 27, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted education around the world. Institutions from preschool through higher education have either halted or significantly altered how education is provided, and the repercussions from this...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 27, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
When my brother told me he had been diagnosed with COVID-19, I was scared. My memory immediately jumped to visions of his childhood struggles with asthma, which he described as having an ever-tightening chain around his chest. I thought of intubated COVID-19...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 27, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Even though evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorders (OUD) is effective, almost four in five Americans with OUD do not receive any form of treatment. The gap in access to evidence-based care, including treatment with...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 9, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
“Patients will sometimes come to the doctor’s office looking for me. I’m not always there. I’m a partner with the doctor’s office and part of your care team. But you’ll see me in the street, you’ll see me in your community center, at the YMCA, and also at your...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 13, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Health care workers face serious risks to their own health and safety during both routine and emergency work. Airborne transmissible...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 16, 2019 | Commentary, Perspectives
Reflecting on my Patient Experience Doctors told me I had a large tumor attached to a nerve in my spinal cord. The tumor was precariously expanding into my chest cavity, and there was a likelihood of paralysis if I did not act. Surgery was my only option. I am...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 21, 2019 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction Health care systems are operating in an environment that is increasingly moving toward value-based payments that reward good health outcomes and patient experience. An impediment to success in this environment, however, is that both health care...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 23, 2019 | Commentary, Perspectives
Every day in clinical practice, health care clinicians make difficult decisions about appropriate treatment and care for their patients. Years of training prepare them for this responsibility, to choose the best course of action for a patient based on their...
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