by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2011
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has generously released the session video of the keynote that SPM president Dr. Danny Sands and I delivered at the IHI’s annual Forum in December. At this event the IHI did two extraordinary patient-oriented things:...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 15, 2011
We in the “open health” community need to add to this new wiki. Who’s better than the Society for Participatory Medicine?? Specifically: Last week Aman Bhandari (@GHIdeas – Global Health Ideas) tweeted about something that’s exciting...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 2, 2011
This page is obsolete. For blog posts, see the https://participatorymedicine.org/epatients/GuestPosts page. Articles for our Journal of Participatory Medicine: see guidelines here.
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 30, 2011
Researching recently I wound up looking at where we were two years ago –Â February 2009, just as the Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM) was forming. Fascinating to see what topics were live then and are still relevant today – this community has...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 29, 2011
We’ve recently been talking here about problems with poor study design in clinical trials. A health IT version of this problem raced through the newswires this week while I was on the road. The news coverage was particularly naïve, illustrating our point....
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 28, 2011
Update 1/29: in a comment, Gilles Frydman pointed out that Newsweek’s Sharon Begley wrote this article almost two months before the New Yorker piece appeared – and the editors held the article, apparently due to pressure from a pharma advertiser whose...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 24, 2011
Click the image to view the letter we submitted last week to ONC, commenting on the December 10 report of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) about health IT. The response was driven by SPM policy chair David Harlow and approved...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 22, 2011
I have a Google Alert for “e-patient,” and sometimes I’m surprised what it catches. Tonight it was this: 3 Reasons Steve Jobs Will Be The Ultimate e-Patient Steve Jobs’ medical leave sets the stage for the upcoming revolution in the production...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 21, 2011
Update 1/22: this was originally in our “Found on the Net” sidebar, but it’s attracted enough comments that it belongs in the mainstream. I was researching the coverage of statins on Health News Review, the great e-patient resource we’ve often...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 20, 2011
Thanks to friends Kavita Patel and Brian Ahier for pointing out this sign of shifting winds, in yesterday’s Time online:Â Googling Symptoms Helps Patients and Doctors. It’s a watershed moment, because the last physician column I saw on this was the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 18, 2011
There are several stages in becoming an empowered, engaged, activated patient – a capable, responsible partner in getting good care for yourself, your family, whoever you’re caring for. One ingredient is to know what to expect, so you can tell when things...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 14, 2011
Update 3 pm ET: Thanks to Gilles Frydman for pasting in, in a comment below, the BMA’s actual statement, which as he says isn’t nearly as paternalistic as I thought from reading the BMJ piece. Need to discuss how this happened. _______ According to...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 13, 2011
A recurring theme on this blog is the need for empowered, engaged patients to understand what they read about science. It’s true when researching treatments for one’s condition, it’s true when considering government policy proposals, it’s true...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 12, 2011
From Medscape Medical Ethics: Consequences aside, from a strictly ethical perspective, if a patient doesn’t realize that his physician made a mistake, should the physician fess up?… Before you jump to conclusions (as I did!), look at the article’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 7, 2011
Thanks to a tweet by @AndrewSpong during this morning’s #hcsmeu Twitter chat, I was reminded that Wikipedia has an “e-patient” entry.
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 5, 2011
In December the Society for Participatory Medicine’s executive committee appointed health law attorney David Harlow to represent the Society in public policy matters. Regular readers of HealthBlawg::David Harlow’s Health Care Law Blog know what a...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 3, 2011
For those who believe in the power of facts, some wonderful news from CMIO, 12/15/10: “Six of the nation’s leading healthcare systems — Cleveland Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare and Mayo Clinic...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 29, 2010
Kent Bottles MD is one of the best healthcare thinkers I’ve met. Yesterday he completed a two-part tour de force on The Health Care blog titled “The Difficult Science.” Here are part 1 and part 2. This is about “how do we know what we think we...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 22, 2010
What do we (patients) call ourselves? This is a deep subject that’s been debated a lot. (If I were Susannah Fox I’d toss in a dozen worthy links here:), but I’m short on time. Please add some in comments.) There is indeed power in the words we use,...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 20, 2010
Headline and body edited Oct 6, 2013: the original post talked about “practice variation,” but that was bad wording. The problem is unwarranted practice variation: variation that, when studied, is not warranted by actual differences between cases....
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