by e-Patient Dave | Sep 24, 2010
Pathways, a Scientific American magazine, has a long new article The Rise of the Empowered Patient. It quotes, among others, our friend Lucien Engelen (@Zorg20, which is Dutch for Health 2.0). I’m starting an all day meeting so I can’t absorb yet –...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 22, 2010
I’m going to be on a panel at the American College of Surgeons 96th Annual Clinical Congress on October 5 in Washington, DC. The session title is pretty provocative: To Tweet or Become Extinct?: Why Surgeons Need to Understand Social Networking and my part of it...
by Charlie Smith | Sep 22, 2010
The Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM), the online peer-reviewed, open access publication of the Society for Participatory Medicine, has released new content for its 2010 volume. The journal’s mission is to transform the culture of medicine from a delivery...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 21, 2010
By Lisa Neal Gualtieri. (Her earlier much-commented post on this subject is here.) The Boston Globe reported this month on the sentencing of a former US Airways Express pilot, Stephen Sharp, “for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 20, 2010
You can’t be well empowered if you hear advice wrong. That’s why, in a participatory relationship, an essential skill is accurate handoff of information. The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, catchily pronounced “fimdim,” has...
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