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Where to get DICOM readers

by | Jul 26, 2008

Update: links to free viewers for Windows, Mac, and Linux, for the DICOM image format used for scan imagesBackground information on DICOM, and the Wikipedia entryLinks to sample images, so you can experiment with a viewer Why I’m writing about this: Linux guru...

Observations of Daily Living and Personal Health Records

by | Jul 4, 2008

Following up on Gilles Frydman’s comments about Observations of Daily Living (ODL), we found another ODL post by e-Patients Group ally Kevin Kelly at The Quantified Self:Detailed quantifiable self-observation has a new handle. It is called ODL or Observations of...

An e-Patient discusses how technology helped him

by | Jun 9, 2008

In February 2007 the Washington DC PBS station, WETA, produced a pilot program for a series called “Healthcare 360,” produced by George Mason University and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The pilot is about “Health IT and how it...

CaringBridge, CarePages: community support sites

by | Jun 7, 2008

This weekend the Associated Press is publishing a story about CaringBridge and a similar site, CarePages. It relates the experience of several users, including my community and family during my cancer adventure last year (see my CaringBridge journal.). Newcomers: if...

Consumers talk back to CNN’s Empowered Patient

by | May 19, 2008

For several informative empowered patient stories, see the Comments at bottom of this post. CNN’s Empowered Patient column, by medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, contains good, if not groundbreaking, advice, plus the occasional exaggeration or misconception. For...

Randy Pausch, empowered patient / participatory medicine

by | May 11, 2008

Chapter 12 of Randy Pausch’s best-selling book The Last Lecture opens with a classic anecdote of what it looks like when an empowered patient practices participatory medicine with an equally participatory care team: CT scans revealed I had pancreatic cancer, and it...

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