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Harnessing Openness

by | Feb 8, 2008

The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, non-partisan research organization with a trustee list dominated by corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with that — my own funders, the Pew Charitable Trusts, are also listed on the...

Rate a Doctor?

by | Jan 6, 2008

For years Doc Tom urged us to facilitate patients’ publicly rating doctors as a way to accelerate e-pateints movement. Alan (DrGreene) was excited about this, even though he was a physician, but I was afraid it would open Pandora’s box. In the winter of...

E-Patients Report Bad Drug Reactions

by | Nov 19, 2007

When a medication causes a horrible side effect a patient usually turns to the prescribing physician for help. If the adverse reaction is listed in the prescribing information, then the doctor is more likely to recognize the problem as drug related. Too often, though,...

Drug Alerts & Interactions Online

by | Nov 7, 2007

Getting timely information about drug dangers is always challenging. It’s been our experience that drug companies and the FDA generally downplay problems until they have no choice but to admit there’s a serious complication. The diabetes drug Avandia is just one...

New e-Patient Reporting Tool

by | May 14, 2007

A new web site called “Who Is Sick” (conveniently located at www.whoissick.org) allows people to report their symptoms (cough, fever, nausea, etc.) to be logged in real time. The service tracks sickness trends down to the zip code level (aggregate...

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