#HCSM Review—Health Affairs & Rare Disease Edition
This Feb. 13, 2013 edition focuses on the following themes: the Health Affairs Briefing Reminder: New Era Of Patient Engagement held on Feb. 6 in Washington, D.C. and subsequently released edition of Health Affairs — and — the upcoming Rare Disease Day: Disorders Without Borders to be held worldwide on Feb. 28. Included within these focus areas are topics such as health literacy, drug development, healthcare costs, patient-centered care, and deliberations on what makes one a patient. Health Affairs is the New Shirtless Dancing Guy Nick Dawson Dawson attended the HA briefing in advance of the journal's February edition dedicated to all things ePatient. He calls attention to the fact that no "actual patients" were on the panel, while appreciating what HA has done with the issue. Listen in to audio from the HA briefing . ‘Patient Activation’: Real Paradigm Shift or Updated Jargon? Jacob Molyneux A nice summary of key issues from the HA briefing, which Molyn