Two INQRI Blogposts To Help Ring In 2012

We are pleased to share with all of you two blogposts written by an INQRI grantee and INQRI's Program Associate that were recently featured on RWJF's Human Capital Blog.

The first blogpost is written by INQRI's Program Associate, Heather Kelley-Thompson, MA, whom many of you may have corresponded with over the years.

Click here to read Ms. Kelley-Thompson's collective New Year's resolution.

The second blogpost is written by INQRI grantee, Nancy E. Donaldson, RN, DNSc, FAAN. Dr. Donaldson's blogpost discussed how self-empowerment and the IOM's Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report has, and will continue to shape her New Year's resolution through 2012.

Click here to read Dr. Donaldson's New Year's resolution.

Around the Blogosphere...

Take a look at some of the things we're reading this week...

• Check out this week's "killer edition" of the Health Wonk Review, hosted by Tinker Ready at Boston Health News.

• Over at the John A. Hartford Foundation blog, Health AGEnda, Chris Langston discusses patient engagement in health care and a team-based approach to care management in his post "Sailing the Ship of Health Care."

• The Health Care for All blog provides the latest action on a series of patient safety bills being considered by the Massachusetts legislature in the post, "Patient Safety Bill Moving." 

Health IT and EHRs - Strategies to Improve Patient Outcomes

"There are lots of great ideas about how to use health IT and exchange electronic health information to improve outcomes and reduce costs in our health care system. The recent, unprecedented commitment of our nation to support the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) has accelerated the pace of conversation."

– David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Click here to read David Blumenthal's new blog on health IT.