Healthcare Collaboration Blog

My blog site has moved to http://healthcarecollaboration.com

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I have moved my blog site to http://healthcarecollaboration.com/blog/, so that my website and blog are together

I hope that the temporary inconvenience of adjusting your browsers will be offset by access to more information relevant to healthcare collaboration, including peer-reviewed articles that I have written that you can download free of charge at http://healthcarecollaboration.com/articles/, shortly after I receive permission from the publishers.

Thank you for your interest and participation in the Healthcare Collaboration Blog.

I welcome your input.

Kenneth H. Cohn

www.healthcarecollaboration.com

Healthcare Collaboration: A Vision

The word "collaborate" conveys two meanings.  One derived from the Latin "collaborare," means to work together.  The other connotes partnering with people who are not trustworthy, as in "collaborating with the enemy."

In this and subsequent blogs, let's explore this duality and how we can move from viewing life as a series of "us-versus-them" battles to a more Copernican view that puts patients and families at the center of the universe.  Most of us went into healthcare initially to make a difference in patients' lives.  Hence, we agree on the who and why; it is the how that is the source of a lifelong learning journey.

I hope that this blog will become an environment in which it is safe to share our ideas and in which learning will replace blaming.  The idea for this blog stemmed from a need to allow people to reconnect who had come together during seminars that I have taught at the American College of Healthcare Executives on Practical Strategies for Engaging Physicians since 2003.

I want to hear  your thoughts and needs.  Please help us form a vibrant learning community that helps us sustain one another in our efforts to improve patient care.