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...
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...
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 ...
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...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 25, 2012
Lygeia Ricciardi from ONC with a discussion about giving patients access to their data and a call for patients to volunteer in ONC’s worksgroups...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 25, 2012
From the HIMSS Blog, Adam Bazer with a personal health story where even in a great hospitals the IT is not as connected as can be. We wish your son Ari well, Adam! http://blog.himss.org/2012/06/25/healthcare-it-from-the-view-of-a-worried-father/ The link inside the...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 22, 2012
Member Elisabeth Bailey published a few articles on the Dr Greene website. Her recent book, The Patient’s Checklist, got great reviews and is a great workbook for anyone having any medical procedure in a hospital. In the Dr Greene articles, Elisabeth is...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 22, 2012
Thanks to David Harlow for the heads-up to a contest for scholarships for patients to attend Mayo Clinic’s Social Media Summit: Excerpt: The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is offering an opportunity for patient advocates to attend its Social Media Summit...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 21, 2012
Thanks to member Marya Zilberberg for recounting and elaborating on the list serve discussion about what’s best to use for clinical data: structured or unstructured data: http://evimedgroup.blogspot.com/2012/06/unstructured-medical-record-another.html ...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 20, 2012
Do you have the ideal healthcare network of individuals supporting your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects? Sally Richards does. She works with hospitals, neurofibromatosis (NF) organizations, government entities and patients in what she calls “a...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 19, 2012
Thanks to member Eve Harris that pointed our her review of Joe and Teresa Graedon’s 2011 book “Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them”. From Eve: My blogpost ” Better Care, Fewer Worries” links to the SPM monthly intro this...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 5, 2012
Member Keith Boone about the meeting at the White House with ONC and Regina Holliday, e-Patient Dave and others: http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2012/06/secret-white-house-meetings-with.html Discussions were about giving data to patients, security, privacy,...
by Ileana Balcu | May 24, 2012
Member John Sharp from Cleveland Clinic has a great review of Social Media in Health Care in the last two years. The Society for Participatory Medicine is also mentioned....
by Ileana Balcu | May 18, 2012
Neil Versel, a HIT journalist, relates a very touching story of his father’s care at two different hospitals: one was uncoordinated and prone to errors and near misses, another one was quite a good experience. Unfortunately Neil’s father had a rare poorly...
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