by e-Patient Dave | Jun 27, 2010
A recurring training topic on this blog, originally for e-patients but also for clinicians and policy people, is understanding statistics. (See posts in that category.)Â Not only are statistics often misinterpreted; even when they’re correctly understood,...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jun 26, 2010
The e-patient movement is so real that in April the National Library of Medicine had its first ePatient Conference. Yes, that’s what they called it. The event is covered on the inside front cover of the current Medline Plus, including Society co-chair e-Patient...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 21, 2010
Paul Roemer (LinkedIn, Twitter ) is speaking this Thursday at Health 2.0 in Bethesda. He’s a Twitter friend who has a lot in common with me: a cancer kicker with a business background, who now sees himself as an e-patient. There’s one big difference: he went...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 17, 2010
In May, I spoke at the Chronic Care and Prevention Congress about my most recent report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet.” I talked about the social life of health information and the internet’s power to connect people with information and with...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 16, 2010
Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you: His own post on Embargo Watch: “More thoughts on ASCO: How the embargo policy can...
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