by e-Patient Dave | Mar 8, 2009
I have a fairly geeky abstract question about one aspect of the e-patient world. It’s not pivotal for issues of empowerment, access to care, etc, but as my friends and I keep learning about participatory medicine, the topic of social networking keeps coming up....
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 4, 2009
At the Connected Health conference in Boston last year, where I spoke with my physician Danny Sands, I heard the visionary Clay Shirky speak. He gets it in spades about patient empowerment. In passing, he cited one of the most absurd ideas I’ve ever heard :–)...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2009
Cross-posted from my own blog a week ago. I’ve decided to go ahead and put my data in Google Health and MicroSoft HealthVault. (Note: MicroSoft HealthVault is a different kind of thing from Google Health. About the only thing they have in common is that I...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 2, 2008
[Video at http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1418520436 is no longer available] A week ago Ted Eytan posted about a Consumer Reports Health blog post, including a video of a patient who is unable to get health insurance because of an error in...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2008
Click images to view full size originals. Last weekend I stumbled across the “attic” of Tom Ferguson MD, who was the “George Washington of patient empowerment,” as CNN put it this month, citing his work since 1975 to create a world of freedom...
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