Eric Dishman Ted Talk Analysis

Amber Dixon Eric Dishman’s Ted talk was very inspiring, especially for me, a person who is going into the health care field. The public health system he discusses in the video is so innovative and important when thinking about the future of healthcare. He talks about the three pillars that make up this system: care anywhere, care networking and care customization and of these three I think the most profound pillar is care networking. However, all of the pillars he discusses are important when making a big change in health care and improving the access, quality and cost of health care. Care anywhere is a new way to look at health care and Eric Dishman really sheds some light on the importance of this idea. I have never taken the time to stop and think about this idea, but now that Dishman brings it up I wonder why we don’t already have this, because technology has come so far that, that isn’t what is holding us back from achieving this goal. Dishman

His story of how they thought he had a heart problem, but it really was just a communication problem is baffling, however, it is not uncommon. “About 80% of all serious medical errors involve miscommunication during care transitions (to different care settings)” (Govette, 2016). Health care facilities always talk about how working as a team and communication is important to the facilities success, but it is often overlooked. I believe the reason for this, is that most facilities use text as a way to communicate and often don’t use any other methods. However, the miscommunication problem could be solved if they met with other health care professionals, or even talked to them over the phone to discuss the problems with a particular patient. Even just double checking with someone to make sure they read the patients file would help the situation