Category Archives: Cryer Health BlogObsesrvations from a Wound Healing ClinicAugust 29, 2011 – 4:07 am
Dr. Christopher Attinger’s wound healing clinic at Georgetown University Hospital, with its complex case-mix, aggressive treatment approach, and support service infrastructure (technology and people), may be one of the most advanced wound healing environments in the world. Having been absent from the complexities of the direct patient care environment for some time, I found myself immediately saturated with dozens of managerial observations. Patients As CustomersApril 23, 2010 – 10:35 am
At the 7th Annual National Minority Quality Forum/Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust, Dr. Gary Puckerin reemphasized medicine’s failure at treating medical patients as customers. In my experience as a hospital manager, I’ve found the best health delivery systems and organizations pride themselves in recognizing patients as customers. As healthcare advocates, we should strategically implement [...] Welcome to the CryerHealth Blog!February 1, 2010 – 6:52 pm
FinalColor-Logo_Jan10 Welcome to the CryerHealth Blog. CryerHealth is the only patient and physician owned and operated consulting firm. We are committed to ensuring that the voices, perspectives, and knowledge of patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers are driving health and healthcare innovation today. Our Chief Executive Officer, Donna Cryer, has been actively involved with the healthcare system as a patient since being diagnosed with ulcerative colitis as a teenager. She received a liver transplant at Johns Hopkins between 1st and 2nd years of law school at Georgetown. These experiences were life changing. Donna has worked in healthcare policy, advocacy and communications for more than 14 years in Washington, DC. Our Chief Medical Officer, Dennis Cryer, a physician/researcher, has spent the past 25 years in roles both in academic research (molecular genetics and metabolic pathways) and in the pharmaceutical industry (drug development and Advocacy/External Affairs), always maintaining a passion for patients’ rights and the elimination of disparities in healthcare. Our interests are broad and varied, but it is our belief that it is not only possible, but imperative, that we work to improve healthcare through the collaboration of patients and physicians. Our hope for this blog is that it will serve as a forum for new ideas and different perspectives. We plan to focus on a variety of topics and issues across therapeutic disciplines, from important advances in medical science to key developments in healthcare reform, and will regularly supplement our own thoughts with those of guest bloggers. It is our intent that this blog will help to inform and shape the conversation around healthcare in America in the 21st century. So we invite you to read and participate in this blog, and hope that it will fill an unmet need in contemporary discussions of healthcare. –Dennis R. Cryer, MD, FAHA and Donna R. Cryer, JD |
