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Memoirs offer insiders’ view of mental health care

Virginia Immanuel recommends two books with firsthand testimony about our nation’s mental health care system.
Virginia Immanuel recommends two books with firsthand testimony about our nation’s mental health care system  Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl by Stacy Persha……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/insiders-view-our-mental-health-care-system

Better together: Dyad structure is key in health department’s success

Evaluators find Seattle/King Country Public Health nails a whopping 22 of its 24 strategies in a $25 million initiative to improve public health.
Evaluators find Seattle / King County Public Health nails a whopping 22 of its 24 strategies in a $25 million initiative to improve public health “School lunches should be healthi……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/better-together-dyad-structure-key-health-departments-success

Precision medicine needs a population approach

Dr. Eric B. Larson says a new JAMA study that includes Group Health shows the power of research with big, diverse, real-world populations.
Dr. Eric B. Larson says a new JAMA study of arrhythmia shows the power of research with big, diverse, real-world populations such as Group Health The year 2003 was a milestone in ……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/precision-medicine-needs-population-approach

Group Health’s new lung cancer screening program shows promise

A project to find early cancers is saving lives, thanks to teamwork, writes Jennifer Nazarko, Group Health director of medical specialties.
From left: Diana Buist, Jennifer Nazarko, and Karen Wernli. A project to find early cancers is saving lives, thanks to teamwork, writes Jennifer Nazarko, director of medical specia……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/group-health-lung-cancer-screening

Our top 6 reasons why ‘it was a very good year’

See how 2015 was the Institute’s best year yet—for funding and practical impact, improving people’s health at Group Health and across the country.
See how 2015 was the Institute’s best year yet—for funding and practical impact, improving people’s health at Group Health and across the country. To paraphrase Frank Sinatra, whe……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/our-top-6-reasons-why-it-was-very-good-year

Closing the knowledge gap on prevention in pediatrics

Does routine screening for autism, high cholesterol, and other problems improve kids’ health? We need better research to find out, Dr. Grossman says.
Does routine screening for autism, high cholesterol, and other problems improve kids’ health? We need better research to find out, Dr. Grossman says. by David C. Grossman, MD, MPH……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/closing-knowledge-gap-prevention-pediatrics

Is a picture worth 1,000 words if patients don’t understand it?

Graphic data displays, like on a Fitbit app, are meant to motivate patients to change behavior and understand their care. But do they work?
Graphic data displays, like on a Fitbit app, are meant to motivate patients to change behavior and understand their care. But do they work?  Visual displays of health data are eve……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/picture-worth-1000-words-if-patients-dont-understand-it1

‘You’re never more creative’: New directors Paula Lozano and Diana Buist

Dr. Eric B. Larson welcomes new GHRI leaders in research collaborations and translation.
Dr. Eric B. Larson welcomes new GHRI leaders in research collaborations and translation After closing out our strongest year ever in 2015, the new year started on a high note here……
https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/blog/2016/jan-2016/youre-never-more-creative-new-directors-paula-lozano-and-diana-buist

 
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