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Once again: e-patient essential – sorting out what writings to trust

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 2, 2011

A prime benefit of individual membership ($30) in our Society for Participatory Medicine is the right to participate in our members-only listserv. It was pretty sleepy a year ago, but these days it’s a hotbed of juicy discussions. Here’s something that...

Health News Review gets its second makeover. With comments!

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 30, 2011

We’ve often cited Gary Schwitzer’s Health News Review (@HealthNewsRevu on Twitter) as an invaluable e-patient resource. With a structured ten point evaluation process, the site’s many trained reviewers evaluate the reporting of health news. We...

This year it’s … Occupy With Grace

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 22, 2011

As in 2009 and 2010, this year too we donate our top post at Thanksgiving to the Engage With Grace movement, encouraging people to participate in this very important discussion, at the time of year when we’re most likely to be together with families. Because it...

Kenneth S. Spriggs: The Benefits Of Visualizing Your Medical Data

by Kathleen O'Malley | Nov 21, 2011

Guest blogger Ken Spriggs talks about how he made sense of his medical data by creating a graphic electronic health record, the DIYEHR. [Update 11/25: the data visualization that Ken created is so extraordinary that we’re adding it here, four days after the...

Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes en Español

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011

To read this post in English, click here. Hacía tiempo que teníamos en mente la posibilidad de llevar a cabo la traducción del Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes al Español, ya que con más de 420 millones de hispanoparlantes en todo el planeta, nuestro idioma es ya la...

Announcing: the e-Patient White Paper, in Spanish

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s here! From the English “e-Patients: How they can help us heal health care,” you can now click to download the Spanish e-Pacientes: cómo nos pueden ayudar a mejorar la salud. To read this post in Spanish,...