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Social media and healthcare: hospitals lead

A signal moment has happened: When a major business authority with no history in healthcare speaks up about a shift in the wind, it’s worth noting. And this time it’s a great sign for participatory medicine, because the news is that hospitals are engaging...

Social Healthcare: “Medicine in the Age of Twitter”

Physician Pauline Chen writes about “Medicine in the Age of Twitter” for the New York Times. The article suggests the need for our upcoming peer-reviewed Journal of Participatory Medicine:…a quick scan through peer-reviewed journals reveals only a...

Democracy and Healthcare

At boingboing, Doug Rushkoff posted a video from C-Span of the Senate Hearings on Healthcare Reform, including a half dozen “peaceful and very articulate” protesters “demanding a seat at the table (where 15 witnesses wait to testify, not one...

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