Flipping the Clinic: The Beginning of the Beginning
How do you turn an idea into something bigger? It’s necessary, but not sufficient, to start with a good idea, of course. But it also takes a community of supporters – people willing to step out of...
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Meeting the Needs of Patients AND Providers
One of the earliest questions during the Flip the Clinic design meeting in September was, Why? Why Flip the Clinic? One participant suggested that patients are often satisfied with their care, but...
View ArticleFlipping the Clinic: The Beginning of the Beginning
How do you turn an idea into something bigger? It’s necessary, but not sufficient, to start with a good idea, of course. But it also takes a community of supporters – people willing to step out of...
View ArticleMeeting the Needs of Patients AND Providers
One of the earliest questions during the Flip the Clinic design meeting in September was, Why? Why Flip the Clinic? One participant suggested that patients are often satisfied with their care, but feel...
View ArticleWhat You Want From A Flipped Clinic
For months, good ideas have been pouring into our inbox. While we’ve been getting ready to reveal our first series of flips, patients, providers, and administrators have been emailing in to offer their...
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The World’s Biggest Expert In Me
By Anne Weiss Anne Weiss is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation senior program officer and team director. This post originally appeared on RWJF’s Culture of Health blog on March 24, 2014. I’ve worked at...
View ArticleTED 2014: Flip the Clinic!
By Michael Painter Michael Painter, JD, MD, is a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This post originally appeared on The Health Care Blog on March 25, 2014. It has been...
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Young Social Innovators “Flip Out” for Health and Health Care in L.A.
Shaheen Mamawala, MPA, is a communications associate at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. If you had five hours to engage a dozen young, energetic social innovators on a pressing systemic challenge,...
View ArticleMaking the 15 Minutes More Valuable: It’s Time to Flip the Clinic
Steve Downs is chief technology and information officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This post originally appeared on KevinMD.com on April 20, 2014. Fifteen minutes. Give or take. That’s...
View ArticlePutting the Idea to the Test
In September 2013 – a little more than a year ago – the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation started Flip the Clinic with a conversation. We gathered at RWJF HQ in Princeton, bringing a dozen smart folks...
View ArticleFive Insights From Our First Flip the Clinic Lab
When we decided to launch a second year of Flip the Clinic, we knew that we’d need to do more than just tend this website. We knew that we’d have to take this idea and ask people to wrestle with it, to...
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I’m Flipped
Grace O’Sullivan is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Project HoneyBee – Center for Sustainable Health, ASU. When I heard that Flip the Clinic was hitting the road for a series of regional...
View ArticleContext, Understanding, and Empathy: #IWishMyDoc & #IWishMyPatient
If you could openly offer any suggestion to your physician, what would it be and why? If you could kindly suggest something that could improve your patient’s time in the clinic or overall health, what...
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An Idea Sparked In the San Francisco Lab Evolves
For patients, there are more wearable technologies available than ever. Have a sleep condition? Need a heart monitor? Require help tracking symptoms of a chronic condition? Patients, providers, and...
View ArticleFlip the Clinic’s Phoenix Lab Takes Off
Last Thursday, Flip the Clinic landed in Phoenix for the second of its six Lab events. Forty-five or so attendees, including patients, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurse...
View ArticleHow A Clinic Seized Upon A Slow Period to Vastly Improve Community Health
December is low season when you run a health clinic. People are traveling or otherwise occupied, which means they’re putting off appointments. Keith Seidel, the medical director of Southeast Health...
View ArticleFlipping Our Culture
Meshie Knight is a Program Associate at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. On March 5th I visited Flip the Clinic Lab in Phoenix. The Lab is a hands-on learning environment that brings together...
View ArticleImproving the Quality of Our Conversations to Speed Up Innovation
At any one moment, we operate within a framework that guides our decisions: what is our budget, is it covered by insurance, how the system has always worked. When a patient visits the clinic, it’s...
View ArticleFlips Unfiltered: The Other Ideas from Austin
Austin was Flip the Clinic’s largest Lab yet. Participants mined their own experiences, dug out new ideas, and combined them with existing knowledge to generate a wealth of Flips. But to push Flips...
View ArticleFlips Unfiltered: The Wealth of Ideas Offered in Durham
Today is Flip the Clinic Lab day in Durham. Right now eight groups are deep in conversation, working on a second iteration of Flips already presented to their peers. As a group, we’ve converged on...
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