10 Comments

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   Robert Goldberg on February 2, 2011 at 9:28 pm

   I am an enthusiastic support of using digital technologies to improve health, accelerate medical innovation and increase the amount of control we have over medical decisions.

   However… (and I would not mind being a guest blogger on this and related subjects) it is important to make sure the medium is not skewing decisions in favor of health insurers or government ‘experts.’ It is important to make sure that fearmongering and skepticism regarding new technologies is called out. And it is critical that ehealth not fall prey ‘magical thinking’ and demonstrate improved outcomes or more value, convenience, etc..Seems to me that no healthy skepticism is tolerated and that epatientism can quickly become a religion wherein people like me who don’t buy the dogma are excommunicated or ignored..

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   Mark Boguski on February 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm

   Dave,
   Michele & I did a presentation today at the Harvard School of Public Health on “Health Communication at the Nexus of Social Media & Popular Culture.”
   PDF here: http://bit.ly/eMJqk5
   Would you be interested in a post on this?
   Thanks,
   Mark

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     e-Patient Dave on February 10, 2011 at 9:13 pm

     Hi Mark – as the post says, we invite submissions that match the scope and purpose described.

     As we’ve discussed before, viewing health issues through the lens of celebrity news coverage is interesting but isn’t inherently participatory. On the other hand, if Lady Gaga did something participatory, that would be relevant. An example is our posts about Dennis Quaid’s work after his twins were severely injured, as he and his wife got involved in improving healthcare.

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       Mark Boguski on February 14, 2011 at 7:06 pm

       Dave – You raise an interesting distinction between participatory medicine for personal use and participatory medicine on behalf of society (the Dennis Quaid example).
       I’ve always felt that participatory medicine, as we commonly think of it, requires a level of education and assertiveness that not everyone has and therefore potentially leaves a lot of people out in the cold.
       Celebrity illnesses as cueing events for health education are missed opportunities to reach those with different, perhaps more passive, learning styles and modes of social discourse. They may even create new ways for patients to feel comfortable talking about certain topics with their physicians. See our recent lecture at the Harvard School of Public Health here:
       http://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/24696

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   Chris Beurman on August 30, 2011 at 1:17 pm

   Hello,

   I am the Community Relations Manager of Children’s Mercy Family Health Partners. We are a Medicaid managed care health plan owned by Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City. We are a not-for-profit safety net health plan whose goal is to help make our members healthy.

   In order to do that, we have created two video channels on YouTube with health education videos targeting those with low health literacy. The channels are available at http://www.youtube.com/cmfhp1 and http://www.youtube.com/cmfhpspanish (Spanish language channel).

   I would like to invite you to use any one of our videos on your blog. The videos contain information on pregnancy, asthma, diabetes, weight management, lead poisoning prevention, health care provider education, dental and more. We will soon have more videos and a podcast coming out on autism as well.

   Thank you and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!

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   Maggie Durango on September 8, 2011 at 12:06 pm

   Hello,

   My name is Maggie and I was wondering if you took paid guest posts on your site, e-patients.net/?
   Not a traditional “guest post” but one you’d be compensated for and have complete editorial control over.
   We do a lot of work with education, health and news related content.

   I’m part of a business that does high-end brand placements worked into guest posts on a variety of
   subjects. The posts don’t advocate or review our clients, they are informational and/or newsy articles
   that are made to fit the feel and flow of your site. We include a reference link to our clients amongst
   other topical links inside the content. We’d provide the article, written by a domain expert, and money
   for you to review and post it upon your approval.

   (If you don’t take guest posts, we also have arrangements where we discuss your upcoming post and
   find one in which a link makes sense and pay you to include it.)

   Is that something that you would be interested in? If so, do you have any other sites?

   Thanks,
   Maggie Durango

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     e-Patient Dave on September 8, 2011 at 1:02 pm

     Maggie, read the post, will you?

     In the last 36 hours I’m suddenly seeing a slew of invitations going to patient bloggers to accept paid links etc. Whoever came up with this brilliant (not) idea doesn’t understand thing one about patient blogs.

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   Frank Morales on November 2, 2011 at 1:26 pm

   Good morning,

   You Health Network (tureddesalud.com) is a social network focused on professional and health services to the community in general. It is present in 18 Latin American countries, aiming to contribute to improving the quality of life of people and be a support tool for professionals and health services.
   No doubt, social networks today have become the cornerstone for communication between more than 540 million people and the use of these networks, causing an irreversible effect on the way we all communicate or seek what we need. In tureddesalud.com, we make available to all of you, a powerful tool for Health 2.0, allowing them to go day by day covering information and communication needs of modern society that demands that breaks leadership paradigms in search of marking their own pattern.

   Grateful for your kind attention and waiting for your prompt response,

   Frank Morales
   Creator – Founder
   frank@tureddesalud.com

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   Laura on February 3, 2015 at 12:43 pm

   I would love to submit soemthing for the blog re: “Why I Joined” but see know method for doing so. There is a reference to contacting the blog team – but no blog team email.

   Laura

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     John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on February 8, 2015 at 5:37 pm

     Here ya go:

     http://pmedicine.org/epatients/GuestPosts