by e-Patient Dave | Aug 2, 2010
Two posts have brought into wrenching relief one of the more difficult topics I’ve encountered in healthcare: the challenge of understanding diagnosis, especially when difficult pathology is involved. It started with When a biopsy cannot completely rule out...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 26, 2010
A majority of consumers’ buying decisions are influenced by social networks, according to a new study from research firm Gartner, says ReadWriteWeb. Three types of key influencers (20% of users) are heeded by 74% of all consumers. We’d like to see this...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 25, 2010
Next in our series, Mark Boguski, MD, PhD is both a personal and a corporate member, as co-founder with Dr. Alan Littleford of ResoundingHealth. If you’d like to submit your own reason, write to me. (This is not an “invitation only” series –...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 21, 2010
I ran across a graphic today that warmed my heart: Recognize that agenda? (Click to enlarge if you want more clarity.) Sure is a lot of what we’ve discussed. Pie in the sky, tough hill to climb, nice idea but not feasible, right? Wrong. Thursday I’m at a...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 20, 2010
Gary Wolf of Wired has posted a whizbang write-up that came out of a whirlwind one-hour 12-way Skype chat about personal health data. Sound frenetic? It was. (I participated. It was, well, 12-way.) I can’t imagine how to model what happened, except to say that...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 20, 2010
Participate in a public survey here at the OpenNotes project website: what do you think will happen when notes are made visible to patients? Five weeks ago we wrote about the start of the OpenNotes project, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Pioneer Portfolio. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 19, 2010
At last Tuesday’s announcement of the Meaningful Use rules, many people asked for the slides. After going through clearances, they arrived today. Click for 44 page PDF (649k). Correction 12:19pm ET 7/19: the PDF has been replaced with a PowerPoint, which we...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 19, 2010
Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life project was on BBC Radio’s “Americana,” with Megan McCarthy, editor of TechMeme. (You know she’s wicked cool because her Twitter ID is just @Megan.) Topic: mobile internet usage in America. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2010
Josh Seidman, Director of Meaningful Use, sent this. It’s for a two year full time job in DC, possibly extendable. No relocation costs will be paid – you’re on yer own. :–) From what I hear, talking to people working in HHS these days, “full...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 9, 2010
Yesterday’s post “Why Gary Schwitzer joined” sparked a lot of discussion, online and off. Why not turn it into a series?? The next to submit is Kent Bottles MD, president of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI). He’s deep, as...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 8, 2010
Correction: the email address for volunteering has been updated to volunteer@participatorymedicine.org We’ve written many times about Gary Schwitzer and the excellent work he does at Health News Review. Last December I said reading health news carefully is a...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Prolific, unsinkable Maggie Mahar commented today on the Century Foundation’s HealthBeat blog about Paul Levy’s “Yes, Patients Can Help Their Doctors” introduction to my forthcoming book. Among other things she pointed out, correctly, that not...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Did you know that a major aspect of the Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform legislation) was significant funding to revamp primary care? I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t. There’s $10 billion (with a B) in funding for research in the first ten...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 4, 2010
How fitting for the Fourth – a year after our Declaration (see below), I just received my renewal notice for the Society for Participatory Medicine. Here’s a Doctor’s Channel interview, posted a year ago today, in which Society co-chair Alan Greene...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 2, 2010
Over 50s lead dash to the internet: “The latest figures on new internet users in the UK have shown that people aged 50 or over made up the largest social group to join last year””: more than half of new users. As the article says, “Don’t...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 2, 2010
This week the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) introduced Healthcare.gov, a consumer information website mandated by the Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform bill). A video of the introduction meeting is here. The site is fabulous; HHS Chief...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 1, 2010
As we adopt new technology NOW is the time to think strategically: “As I make my next move, where do I end up? How am I positioned for the next step?” Patients have a lot at stake in adoption of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Chilmark Research has...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 30, 2010
Earlier this month I wrote that the OpenNotes project had kicked off. It’s important – if you haven’t read about it, please click that link. My primary physician and I are participating, but candidly I didn’t expect to get much out of it: as I...
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.) Not only are statistics often misinterpreted; even when they’re correctly understood,...
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...
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