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Month: June 2012

The Seventh Annual Weitzman Symposium

The Seventh Annual Weitzman Symposium

TRANSFORMING PRIMARY CARE: THE PROMISE OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS The Seventh Annual Weitzman Symposium takes place today on the campus of Wesleyan University and it is being streamed live on Ustream.  Please, watch the stream and then join the discussion on Twitter, using the #Weitzman hashtag. You can view all the Weitzman Tweets using by searching for #Weitzman on Twitter, or using tools like Tweetchat There will be speakers from organizations like PatientsLikeMe, Ginger.io and the National Nursing Centers Consortium.  For more…

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National Running Day

National Running Day

Today is National Running Day and we take fitness at CHC very seriously.  We want all of our staff to be as fit as possible, not only for their own good, but also for the good of our patients.  You see, patients pay close attention to their providers, sometimes paying more attention to the example that the provider offers than the recommendations that provider makes. There is another way that our staff use their own fitness to help improve the…

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Dr. Joel Kupersmith, Chief Research and Development Officer, Veterans Health Administration

Dr. Joel Kupersmith, Chief Research and Development Officer, Veterans Health Administration

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Joel Kupersmith, Chief Research and Development Officer of the Veterans Health Administration who heads numerous research initiatives at the VA. Dr. Kupersmith discusses the creation of The Million Veterans Program, which is seeking to compile the largest data bank of genetic information in the nation for ongoing research. He outlines the benefits of the VA’s long-standing use of electronic health records to better track patients’ health as well as yielding meaningful data…

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