by e-Patient Dave | Apr 10, 2010
I was talking to Mom (age 80) the other night, and she mentioned a document she updates regularly. She prints a fresh copy to take to every doctor visit, so they’ll always have it up to date and won’t have to go digging. We’ve never discussed topics...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 2, 2010
Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners. This new definition devised by the board of the Society of...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 26, 2010
Last week we posted a request from Dr. Bertalan Meskó for video messages from e-patients to his “Medicine 2.0” course. Here’s my submission. (This is my first “vlog” (video blog) so the quality’s not great – like everything...
by Gilles Frydman | Mar 25, 2010
Lygeia Riccardi’s post today on The Health Care Blog begins: I recently applied for life insurance. The broker, whom I’ve never met, asked about my health history. “So you’ve just had a baby,” he began. I asked him how he knew. “You’re on Twitter.” Read...
by Susannah Fox | Mar 24, 2010
For the past 5 months I have been immersed in data and narrative about chronic disease. The result, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” is a report sponsored by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. We find that living with a...
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