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In the End

by | Mar 25, 2011

Three years ago our family was faced with a difficult decision. What is the best care for our mother? We toured all the possible local options, but when it came down to it, there was only one facility* willing to take my mother due to the advanced state of her...

What’s in your… bucket queue?

by | Dec 31, 2009

Prolog: Cheryl said she wasn’t sure whether this post belonged on the e-patient blog. It sure does: When lives are prolonged by medical success, we get to do all kinds of things we wouldn’t have. It also belongs here because this short little piece...

“The 100 Percent Organic Man”

by | Dec 3, 2008

Dr. Alan Greene has been on a mission to find out all he can about organic food.  You can read all about his three year journey as “The 100 Percent Organic Man” on the New York Times article and Blog post by Tara Parker-Pope. He just ended a year as the...

An e-Patient Hero Leaves Us

by | Jul 25, 2008

Most of us know Randy Pausch from his video lecture “Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, taped at Carnegie Mellon as part of their “Last Lecture” series. His hope and optimism in light of a crushing diagnosis brought millions up short as they...

e-Patients Lead The Way at Health 2.0 Conference

by | Mar 4, 2008

The Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego, CA (March 4, 2008) was a buzz with ideas of innovation and connectivity. Matthew Holt and Indu Subalya, MD managed to cram more presentations into one day than most conferences do in two days. The almost-overwhelming day was...

Women Healthcare Executives & e-Patients

by | Feb 1, 2008

e-Patients Scholar, Cheryl Greene presented the e-Patient perspective to women healthcare leaders at X2HN. Her talk titled, Making the Most of Health 2.0, was presented at their annual meeting in San Diego, CA. In the audience was Congresswoman Nancy Johnson....

Hey there, e-Patient Dave!

by | Jan 28, 2008

And welcome to “the movement” (his term not ours :-) I love the transformation of your Blog from Patient Dave to e-Patient Dave and want to quote it here for our readers. “… this looks to me like the Sixties motto “power to the people,” made real in the...

Women — You’ve Been comScored!

by | Jan 25, 2008

“Women More Likely to Turn to Internet than Friends or Family for Health Information” according to a January 22 comScore press release. Reading further you find out “The study was designed to help explain how women choose their birth control method … and...

The WELL

by | Jan 19, 2008

Join the e-Patient Scholars for a conversation on The WELL. Here’s a great quote: “When the Internet industry is booming and investors are interested, we start focusing too much on the technology, because there are so many new technologies hoping to attract users and...

Rate a Doctor?

by | Jan 6, 2008

For years Doc Tom urged us to facilitate patients’ publicly rating doctors as a way to accelerate e-pateints movement. Alan (DrGreene) was excited about this, even though he was a physician, but I was afraid it would open Pandora’s box. In the winter of...

MicroSoft & e-Patients?

by | Oct 4, 2007

Personal Heath records have long been an issue for e-Patients. Today MicroSoft announced that they have the answer: www.healthvault.com. Although no launch date announcements have been made by Google, the rumor is they are working on the answer, too. Looks like the...

This just in from Health 2.0

by | Sep 21, 2007

Yesterday was the landmark Health 2.0 conference (user-generated Healthcare) held in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Matthew Holt and Indu Subalya, MD. Originally envisioned as about a hundred folks getting together for a day to push the movement forward, this...

Making the world a better place …

by | Jul 7, 2007

I checked my calendar today, 7/7/07 and found two important events — Live Earth concert and Tom Ferguson’s birthday. In honor of Tom’s birthday, I decided to wear my e-patients t-shirt, one of the last things Tom gave me. It says, “healthcare....

How do you afford healthcare for so many people?

by | Jun 15, 2007

Bloggers at “Et tu?” are discussing Healthcare costs these days and came to the conclusion that one way to help reduce Healthcare costs is by using trusted Internet sites such as WebMD and DrGreene.com. You can read or join the discussion at “Et...

New e-Patient Reporting Tool

by | May 14, 2007

A new web site called “Who Is Sick” (conveniently located at www.whoissick.org) allows people to report their symptoms (cough, fever, nausea, etc.) to be logged in real time. The service tracks sickness trends down to the zip code level (aggregate...

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