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Welcome to our new look website!
PROGRESS
cChange in Health Care is a collaborative space for health care professionals and allied associates with a passion to advance the cause of cross-disciplinary, patient-oriented medicine, and improve the provision of health care. We have created a platform for members to exchange ideas, experience and resource materials, and foster groups of common interest and collaborative research.
As we progress in our aims and the cChange in Health Care network develops we will record changes to our website, organization, membership and achievements here.
As we progress in our aims and the cChange in Health Care network develops we will record changes to our website, organization, membership and achievements here.
Dr Stuart is Clinical Professor and Director of Behavioral Science in the Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Principal author of The Fifteen Minute Hour: Practical Therapeutic Intervention in Primary Care, she has presented internationally in areas of communications skills, mind-body medicine, geriatrics, family dynamics, stress management and medical education. An expert in group dynamics, she is an accomplished facilitator of retreats for professional groups.
In 1997, STFM accorded Dr. Stuart its highest honor, the Excellence in Education Award. More recently, the House of Delegates of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) installed Dr. Stuart to Honorary Membership in their organization, an extraordinary achievement for a non-physician. Additionally, she maintains a small private practice as a Licensed Psychologist in Morristown, NJ.
Visit Dr Stuart's website.
It has been a rewarding first year and we can proudly claim a great deal of progress in growing membership, website enhancements and facilitating a dynamic forum for change. We now have over 200 members and between them they have formed various groups, created blogs and collaborated to make their voices heard and start gelling ideas for real improvements in health care.
We are proud to list some exceptional individuals in their fields as members of cChange in Health Care and you will find some of them featured on this page. By becoming a member you can see what these people are saying, share your ideas and experiences and get involved. Thanks for visiting and we hope you will be a member when we celebrate our second birthday.
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Dr Fine is a family physician and Managing Director of HealthAccessRI, the nation's first statewide organization making prepaid, reduced fee for service primary care available to people without employer provided insurance and those with health savings accounts. He is Vice Chair of the Board of Crossroads RI, the State's major agency caring for Rhode Island's homeless, and Co-Chair of the Allied Advocacy Group for Integrated Primary Care.
Fine's professional life has been devoted to health care reform, and the care of underserved populations. He has served on a number of Legislative committees and sat on both the Urban Family Medicine Task Force of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the National Advisory Council to the National Health Service Corps.
He is coauthor, with James Peters, to The Nature of Health, the first health policy book since Medical Nemesis (Ivan Illich,1975) and Mirage of Health (Rene Dubos,1959) to consider the meaning of health as most people understand it, and to suggest the design a health care system that delivers the health people want.
Visit Dr Fine's website.
Regular visitors will have noticed some substantial changes to our website. As the membership discussion has developed we have recognized some core issues generating particular interest and activity. We have responded to this by collectively organizing these topics and enhancing the amount of material available for them. More information about these can be found on the topics page.
In the member area we have added some key functionality for the uploading of documents and images and it is now possible for members to chat online. We will continue to enhance the site and add applications so that members will have every tool available to quickly and easily collaborate, and make cChange in Health Care a dynamic space for health care improvement.
In the member area we have added some key functionality for the uploading of documents and images and it is now possible for members to chat online. We will continue to enhance the site and add applications so that members will have every tool available to quickly and easily collaborate, and make cChange in Health Care a dynamic space for health care improvement.
We are proud to announce our partnership with the Family Medicine Education Consortium to host the review of their 2008 NE Region Meeting.
The 27th annual meeting focused on methodology to deliver effective, efficient, equitable health care for all Americans and promoting an approach to health care that responds to the whole person in the context of their family and community.
By joining cChange in Health Care you will be able to review videos of keynote speakers, download presentations, resource information and see winning workshop, seminar and poster presentations.
You can review the meeting and find out a whole lot more.
The 27th annual meeting focused on methodology to deliver effective, efficient, equitable health care for all Americans and promoting an approach to health care that responds to the whole person in the context of their family and community.
By joining cChange in Health Care you will be able to review videos of keynote speakers, download presentations, resource information and see winning workshop, seminar and poster presentations.
You can review the meeting and find out a whole lot more.
A cChange member recently posted a request for other members to share their experiences of community organization-primary care relationships in their communities. With the emergence of Collaborative Learning as a key topic at cChange in Health Care and the increasing importance attached to this modality and inspired by the member post we thought it would be timely to launch an initiative to gather resources on the role community care can play.
Find out how you can take part in this program.
Find out how you can take part in this program.
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The network interface is easy to use and there are plenty of tools and on-line guides to help you.