by Susannah Fox | Nov 16, 2010
How many times have you been at a conference, listening to some panel, when all of a sudden someone says something that snaps you out of your stupor and you think, “Who *is* that guy?” (And if you’re lucky enough to remember Butch Cassidy and the...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 15, 2010
Update the next afternoon: be sure to read the comments, with important updates as the conversation continues. Bulletin – I just learned about this tonight: Last Friday the board of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) published a position paper...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 13, 2010
John Moore of Chilmark Research has another great post, this time on the realities being discovered about PHR use among the urban poor – something most observers considered unlikely. It’s aptly titled Smashing Myths & Assumptions: PHR for Urban...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 12, 2010
Last week, the morning after the mid-term elections, the Disruptive Women in Health Care blog co-hosted an event at the National Press Club to discuss the election’s impact on health reform. They’ve just posted the video of the first hour’s panel,...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 11, 2010
Previous title: “Morgan Stanley, April 2010: Mobile will be bigger than desktop. Discuss, re health.” Thanks to @Rohal and others for tweeting about a talk on internet* trends Tuesday by Mary Meeker of investment banker Morgan Stanley, at their Future of...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 11, 2010
Necessity is the mother of invention. I have been profoundly moved over the past few months by a handful of people who have been forced to live this idiom or who have stepped up to the challenge of aiding wounded warriors. In honor of Veterans Day, please take a...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 4, 2010
Josh Seidman is in charge of Meaningful Use at the Department of Health and Human Services. (Meaningful Use refers to the guidelines for how providers should use electronic medical records.) He wants input from us – that’s you: ONC is eager to get as much...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 1, 2010
I was honored to be invited to TEDMED by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their team encouraged all attendees to complete one of three sentences: “To improve health and health care, we need to start asking…” “To...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 28, 2010
We talk a lot here about taking, owning, or reclaiming responsibility for our health and its care. If we ever update the e-patient white paper I want to include an area where we’re sometimes robbed of control at the most intimate time: death, and the months and...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 27, 2010
Update Jan. 18: the video has just been released – see it at the bottom of this post. TEDMED is a truly extraordinary conference in San Diego, a fall sibling of TED talks focused on medicine. TED talks are just 18 minutes long, chosen and designed to blow your...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 23, 2010
Guest post by Erin Macartney (Twitter) of Palo Alto Medical Foundation. We would welcome similar posts from providers (or anyone else) who’s illustrating what we advocate in the Society for Participatory Medicine: truly patient-centered care, in which...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 22, 2010
I’m at the Connected Health conference, and more than once the question has come up: if patients have access to editing the medical record, will chaos break out? I keep thinking: Free and low-cost cloud collaboration systems can track who entered something and...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Oct 22, 2010
Texas Tribune interviewed Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, for a discussion of healthcare digital convergence (i.e. transition to electronic/digital healthcare records) and the potential impact on patient privacy. He’s...
by Peter Frishauf | Oct 20, 2010
A new commentary on “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science,” in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly. [See also our previous post on the article, with dozens of comments, some of them excellent. And be sure to read Peter’s footnotes. -e-Patient Dave]...
by Susannah Fox | Oct 18, 2010
On Friday I dashed off this tweet: PhD student just asked me which journals I read to stay up to date on health + tech. My answer: Twitter. It was classic RT bait and indeed it was echoed dozens of times by fellow Twitter geeks — more than any other tweet...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 17, 2010
There’s an extraordinary new article in The Atlantic, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science.” It echos the excellent article in our Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM) one year ago this week, by Richard W. Smith, 25 year editor of the British...
by Roni Zeiger | Oct 14, 2010
Because I’m a doctor and I know a lot of people in the health care space, people ask me all the time for referrals. A friend with a newly diagnosed autoimmune disease, a loved one with a terrifying cancer sentence – who should I talk to?? I used to depend on the...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Oct 14, 2010
We welcome members to join us for the First Annual Society for Participatory Medicine Cocktail Reception taking place on Oct 19th at the Liberty Hotel (http://www.libertyhotel.com) from 6-8pm. We invite you to share your ideas and enjoy a wine bottle service, hors...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Oct 12, 2010
This is e-Patients.net’s first opportunity to host Grand Rounds, which is a collection of some of the medical blogosphere’s best writing over the last week. We asked bloggers to look at our sister website, the peer-reviewed Journal of Participatory...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 11, 2010
I chose Lawrence Green’s article “The Field-Building Role of a Journal About Participatory Medicine and Health, and the Evidence Needed” for the Participatory Medicine Grand Rounds, because it addresses the issues at the heart of the deep impact of...
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