Ileana Balcu, Author at SPM Blog

Social Media Breakfast – Healthcare in the Social Media Era

by Ileana Balcu | Jul 17, 2012

If you are in Boston this Friday, you can attend the Social Media Breakfast. The SPM member Alicia Staley will present the progress of the #bcsm (breast cancer social media) community. Other speakers will be there as well and it only costs $8.00. For more details and...

Nursing Alliance for Quality Care kicks off effort to put the patient relationship at the cornerstone of patient safety and quality

by Ileana Balcu | Jul 13, 2012

Thanks to member Marge Benham-Hutchins RN, PhD for sending us the link to this RWJF initiative http://www.rwjf.org/qualityequality/product.jsp?id=74596&cid=XEM_A6199 I especially liked this principle: This relationship [nurse-patient] is grounded in...

NeHC and ONC organize an eHealth Engagement Summit

by Ileana Balcu | Jul 11, 2012

Thanks to Keith Boone for blogging about this summit and raising the issue of why NeHC members were notified about this meeting with only four days notice! http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2012/07/pushing-patients-around-not.html ...

How American Independence Created a New Kind of Patient

by Ileana Balcu | Jul 3, 2012

By Michael L. Millenson The empowered patient, skeptical of professional authority, is not a new phenomenon: he was actually created by the American Revolution. Reading through historian Gordon Wood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Radicalism of the American...