by Kathleen O'Malley | Nov 9, 2011
Guest blogger Nancy Finn reports on the popularity of health apps. She is the author of e-Patients Live Longer. The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a national telephone survey of 2,277 adults in May 2011 and found that 83% own some kind of cell...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Oct 28, 2011
This guest post by Lisa Gualtieri originally appeared in the author’s health blog. “By the time you see the doctor, you’re either dead or you’re better,” my mother-in-law told me. She had to have multiple tests, all with long waits to get the appointments and...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 20, 2011
An essential aspect of participatory medicine – and Federal meaningful use criteria – is patients having a copy of their health data, so they can (a) understand it and (b) take it wherever they want. That includes radiology images. This is not a new issue...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 20, 2011
It’s wise to make healthy things fun, and even wiser to make them social (as touted by SPM member Phil Baumann RN’s Health Is Social). This week at the Mayo Center for Social Media, guru Lee Aase (@LeeAase) introduced a program that does both: a catchy...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 14, 2011
In any movement there’s a stage of maturation, where aspirations get fleshed out with specifics. That time is arriving for participatory medicine. As patient engagement (aka consumer engagement) earns attention, the question increasingly arises: “Where do...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 5, 2011
We’ve often said here that when an e-patient wants to be responsible for treatment decisions, it’s essential to know how to evaluate the research about each option. A common mistake is to trust, blindly, news reports about a treatment, or even to trust,...
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