http://disqus.com/by/communityhealth2009/enSat, 18 Apr 2009 15:38:16 -0000http://healthblog.xprize.org/2009/04/9-contact-comment.html#comment-8335682<p>Re: "survey tool(s) SF-12," et al.</p><p>Question: What other 'survey tools' and parameters qualify submission plans?</p><p>$10M is alot to invest in just getting to a starting line. This question may be better posed to students in healthcare and academic fields. Current practitioners perhaps have vested and conflicted interests in maintaining the status quo.</p>communityhealth2009Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:38:16 -0000http://healthblog.xprize.org/2009/04/9-contact-comment.html#comment-8288750<p>The metrics of XPrize's Project poses a challenge in my mind in how we evaluate e.g., behavioral health interventions. A few years ago after experiencing the loss of several colleagues to suicide and observing family dissolutions and other problematic behavioral issues, I went to work at a private psychiatric facility. There I learned practical skills of communications. Even with a healthcare background, I was changed by what I learned, and in turn it's had an impact on my communications with my family and friends. I have seen the positive effects of the individual's influencing thru proactive caring. So how might X Prize measure the outcome of community behavioral health training? We need to be communities skilled in effective caring for others. Is there a metric for that?</p>communityhealth2009Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:06:31 -0000