by Gilles Frydman | Apr 2, 2010
Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners. This new definition devised by the board of the Society of...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 19, 2010
Denny Porter is executive-in-residence at the HIMSS Foundation, Institute for e-Health Policy. I met him in Washington last month at the eHealth Initiative’s annual conference, where I was on a panel. Great guy, and I love this proposal: a Federal Health Records...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 5, 2009
Some people think e-patient ideas are new. They’re not. I’d like to give credit to a noble antecedent, and ask for your support. Shortly after I discovered this blog (February ’08) I recognized two strong precedents from earlier in my life:...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 4, 2009
There’s a new resource for a vital e-patient skill: reading health news responsibly. It helps us be smarter before we bring new findings to the attention of other patients and our providers – not to mention smarter for our own benefit. When “Doc...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 26, 2009
Alexandra Drane and her team have a new post on The Health Care Blog about how to put this holiday to work in a new way. Here’s a snippet: Some conversations are easier than others Our original mission – to get more and more people talking about their end of...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 23, 2009
Understanding medical research, at some level, is a fundamental e-patient skill. As we start digging for reliable new information, we have to learn to separate quality from questionable. (If you think medical journals are academically pure, you’ve got learning...
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