by e-Patient Dave | Jan 21, 2014
For U.S. residents –Â I spoke last month at a health price transparency conference in Washington, sponsored in part by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In a side session we saw presentations by the winners of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge for shopping...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 13, 2014
Update 9:20 pm ET: see important additions at the subhead below. When I wrote this today I didn’t have time to dig for excellent links like those. Thanks to Susannah Fox’s Twitter feed. One of the best social media patient figures I met, long ago, was...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 1, 2014
The next day I made a correction per Dick Morris’s comment, and toned down some of my adjectives to be more suitable outside of our private listserv. Dr. Bratton, of course we welcome dialog. In our Society for Participatory Medicine, part of our work is to...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 19, 2013
As we’ve said endlessly here (and in Washington), one of the key enablers of better healthcare is access to information. For that subject there’s no more important job in the world than America’s National Coordinator for Health IT, who runs ONC...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 26, 2013
Susannah Fox of Pew Research had an important new study published today about the highest cost part of the healthcare budget: patients with one or more chronic conditions. If you care about the suffering of patients with never-ending conditions or the suffering of the...
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