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• Real-World Perspectives on Coping with COVID-19 Challenges By Gregory Makoul, PhD MS | Founder and CEO, PatientWisdom, Inc. Published at: October 13, 2020
  In early April, just weeks after COVID-19 changed life as we know it, only about two-thirds of the people responding to our CommunityWisdom survey on coping with COVID-19 challenges reported that... read more
• Meetings Between Experts: Transforming Health and Care by Making it Easy to Listen By Gregory Makoul, PhD MS Published at: April 16, 2019
  I recently returned from the 2019 Health Evolution Summit where Lloyd Dean, CEO of CommonSpirit Health, made an enormously insightful observation about the current state of healthcare: We spend so... read more
• Getting Engagement Right: Start with the Patient Perspective By PatientWisdom Published at: October 3, 2018
  The Association for Patient Experience is highlighting "Getting Engagement Right: Start with the Patient Perspective," a new blog post by PatientWisdom CEO Gregory Makoul and Geri Lynn Baumblatt.... read more
• The Meaning and Value of Empathy for Health Organizations By Published at: July 17, 2018
  Check out the blog post written by our founder and CEO, Gregory Makoul PhD MS, on Becker’s Hospital Review! Greg’s post focuses on the meaning and value of empathy for health organizations. A key... read more
• HIMSS18: Engaging Patients in Health Care By Brent Jarkowski Published at: April 3, 2018
  “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” - Stephen Hawking At HIMSS18, I was pleased to see patient engagement emerge as a central theme, another sign... read more
• Reflections on Connections By Gregory Makoul, PhD MS Published at: January 26, 2018
  For a week in January, the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference was the epicenter of discussions about prevailing trends in healthcare.  Every year, the conference focuses on the big problems that... read more
• PatientWisdom: Reflections on Connected Health 2017 By Katrina Veerman Published at: October 27, 2017
  This week, PatientWisdom presented and exhibited at the Connected Health Conference. We learned about new companies and caught up with old friends. We were struck by the breadth and depth of... read more
• The Radical Common Sense of Listening By Gregory Makoul, PhD MS Published at: August 29, 2017
  At the Innovation Learning Network (ILN) Spring Meeting in Chicago, I led a session on ‘Innovation as Radical Common Sense: The Story of PatientWisdom’. The ILN meeting was hosted by Northwestern... read more