Kathleen O'Malley, Author at SPM Blog

Health 2.0 Tools: Recommendations from a Net-Friendly Doc

by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 11, 2012

This week in ScienceRoll, Dr. Bertalan Meskó blogs about several links that the e-patient community will find interesting: IBM Clinical Genomics Helps with Clinical Decision Making Haifa, Israel has developed a new clinical decision support tool that correlates a...

Scott Strange: The Only “Thing” that Can Empower You Is You

by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 9, 2012

This guest post by SPM member Scott Strange originally appeared on his blog, Strangely Diabetic. Scott will host this week’s #s4pm Tweetchat on Wednesday, April 11 at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific (username @Strangely_t1) on #diabetes. It seems that every day we read...

JoPM: “Making Every Second Count” at the Doctor’s Office

by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 4, 2012

Co-Editors-in-Chief Joe and Terry Graedon tell patients how to get the most out of today’s all-too-brief medical office visits in the April editorial of the Journal of Participatory Medicine. “Making Every Second Count – What We Can Do As Patients”...

Nancy Finn: Changes to Health Delivery Are Key to Reducing Costs

by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 28, 2012

Guest blogger, e-patient and SPM member Nancy Finn takes on the tough topic of how to reduce the cost of health care delivery. With all the talk this week about Obamacare and whether or not the Supreme Court will declare the law constitutional, partially...

A psychiatrist touts self-care for patients and clinicians

by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 16, 2012

The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published “An Introduction to Self-Care,” a personal narrative by psychiatrist Sana Johnson-Quijada. Inspired by a positive family experience with collaborative care, the author was emboldened to modify her...