by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2018
TONIGHT: 9 pm Eastern time. #BCSM Twitter chat on the latest Facebook privacy issue. This time the data leaked is from a patient group. FB says it’s a nothingburger. What do you think? Facebook has a record of privacy leaks. The poster shown here (click to...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 28, 2015
For whose benefit does the healthcare industry exist? For the investors, or the people whose needs are the reason for the industry? Facebook last night was celebrating a small but significant legal victory this week for the “gimme my DaM data” movement (“Data about...
by Casey Quinlan | Feb 3, 2014
For e-patients and others who list themselves on Texas Medical Institute of Technology’s SpeakerLink, this very meaty post by Society of Hospital Medicine founder and world-renowned leader of the hospitalist movement Dr. Bob Wachter is required reading. After...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 25, 2014
Here’s a new “must read” for people with a grim prognosis, submitted by Twitter friend @Scanman (Vijay Sadasivam), from the Tamil region of India: How Long Have I Got Left?, by Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. Seven years ago that was my...
by Ileana Balcu | Jan 14, 2014
In this guest blog post, member Carly Medosch describes Lisa Adams whom she knows from social media. Lisa Adams was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and documented her journey in social media. In another post below we describe the media firestorm that was caused...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 13, 2014
Update 9:20 pm ET: see important additions at the subhead below. When I wrote this today I didn’t have time to dig for excellent links like those. Thanks to Susannah Fox’s Twitter feed. One of the best social media patient figures I met, long ago, was...
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