Aaron McKethan
Aaron McKethan's Latest Blog Posts
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Reflections Along the Journey of Health Care Improvement
Time flies when you’re having fun. As my tenure as the Director of the Beacon Community program draws to a close, I have reflected on some of the early lessons that the Beacon Community innovators and implementers around the nation have taught me in the last couple of years.
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What We Can Learn from the Beacon Communities on Their First Birthday?
A year has passed since 17 diverse communities nationwide were notified by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) that they would receive Beacon Community awards. These critical resources empowered the Beacon Community Awardees (“the Beacons”) to build and strengthen their local health IT capacity, use health IT in innovative ways to improve the efficiency and quality of care they can provide their patients, and identify and disseminate these innovations and lessons-learned to others.
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IC3, Improving Care through Connectivity and Collaboration
Interview with Christie North, Vice President, HealthInsight
Christie North, Vice President, HealthInsight
1. What does the IC3 Utah Beacon Community hope to accomplish?
Our ultimate hope is to improve the health of our community so that patients with diabetes do not progress to the next stage of illness prematurely and so that they may experience a greater quality of life. If we are successful,10 years from now, no patient will be admitted to a hospital or go to the emergency department in diabetic trouble that could have been prevented. We won’t get there within the Beacon Community Program period itself, but we are working very hard to use the Beacon experience to accelerate us toward that vision.