by Susannah Fox | Dec 1, 2009
David Eddy did nothing to reassure Kent Bottles about evidence-based guidelines in his recent keynote, saying essentially: “The problem is that we don’t know what we are doing” (!!)
by Susannah Fox | Oct 29, 2009
“If you expose human beings to an experimental treatment, the public has a fundamental right to see the results of those experiments.” – Steven Nissen, chairman of the cardiology department at the Cleveland Clinic, quoted in The Sunlight Foundation’s...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 20, 2009
Kevin Kruse posted a video yesterday which includes this line: The age of participatory medicine has begun. It’s a promo for e-Patients Connections 2009, a conference to be held in Philadelphia this October, but also has good citations (ahem, including my...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Aug 12, 2009
You know you’re going to get a pretty interesting debate about healthcare costs when George Lundberg offers his advice on how to control health care costs right now. A well thought-out piece and one deserving of everyone’s time to read it. Costs can be...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 14, 2009
U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals guide features 3 articles of particular interest to e-patients: Getting Medical Advice on the Web from Other Patients Would You Share Your Health Information Online? Great Medicine Needs Committed Patients...
by Dan Hoch | Jul 9, 2009
I suspect this has caught the attention of many of our readers, but I’ll emphasize it anyway. The Economist often comments on technology and health-care. Recently, they talked up Health 2.0 a bit. What I was most struck by is the handful of comments. Most...
by Gilles Frydman | May 29, 2009
Thanks to Amy Tenderich (@DiabetesMine) for mentioning this CNN Empowered Patient entry that could be of real use to many: “Tips for getting insurance when you have a pre-existing condition ” The tips: Become a group of one If you’ve been laid off,...
by e-Patient Dave | May 13, 2009
John Halamka’s blog has a new post today announcing that the National Library Medicine has mapped 93% of his hospital’s “problem list” codes to the SNOMED CT set of clinical data codes that’s widely used. For more info on data formats see...
by Jon Lebkowsky | May 6, 2009
At boingboing, Doug Rushkoff posted a video from C-Span of the Senate Hearings on Healthcare Reform, including a half dozen “peaceful and very articulate” protesters “demanding a seat at the table (where 15 witnesses wait to testify, not one...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 30, 2009
An Op-Ed piece at the healthcare blog, written by 2 MDs from Harvard Medical School is pretty clear! For those of us who believe the time has come for participatory medicine, the following quote is particularly interesting: Empowering patients should be the first step...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 17, 2009
It couldn’t have been published at a better time! The economist has a new special report on health care and technology. It states: “The convergence of biology and engineering is turning health care into an information industry. That will be disruptive...
by Susannah Fox | Apr 17, 2009
A sneak preview of my remarks at the “Health 2.0 meets Information Therapy” conference appears on the IxCenterBlog: Participatory Democracy, Participatory Medicine. A good discussion of the issues has already begun there and on The Health Care Blog....
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 13, 2009
The Boston Globe takes note of the morass that is Google Health when connecting it to your medical records, as recounted earlier by our own e-Patient Dave here on e-patients.net.
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 6, 2009
Had chemotherapy and weeks after the treatment has ended, still feeling not quite yourself? You’re not alone. The memory and cognitive problems after receiving chemotherapy is known as “chemobrain.” As Ellen Clegg notes in The Cloud Over...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 30, 2009
IBM’s “Smarter Planet” blog has picked up e-Patient Dave’s post A Thousand Points of Pain, about how enmeshed and entangled our healthcare system has become, and the implications for people who want to design a transformed system. Dave added a...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 25, 2009
… or involved in an incident, as patient or provider, Paul Levy solicits your submission. He’s hosting the medical blogosphere’s Grand Rounds next Tuesday, and has chosen the topic When Things Go Awry. Details and instructions are here....
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 12, 2009
We’ve been known to have our minds blown, but this one started as an eye-popper and got better. A friend writes: “Even the DoD is getting in the act: Patients urged to take charge of their care.” But holy cow, there was a LOT more behind that...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 10, 2009
Join Dr. John Grohol in a SXSW Core Conversation this Sunday in Austin, Texas. With the rise of social networking in health, the inevitable questions arise about patient’s data and privacy. But such networks also allow for aggregating data which can help people...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 8, 2009
A friend writes: If you ever needed an example of the mind’s influence on disease, please see the figure at the bottom of page 3 here: Impact of exposure to war stress on exacerbations of MS. Wow.
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 5, 2009
In a sign of the times of the struggling newspaper business, The Boston Globe has axed its health and science section. Strangely, the Globe’s medical blog makes no mention of the cut, despite the end of 25 years of specialty, focused reporting on the sciences...
Learning Health Systems Empower Every American to Actually Make America Healthy Again Together, Part 2May 29, 2025
More important than Time and MoneyFebruary 5, 2025
We Can Change the US Healthcare System: Your Health, Your VoiceJanuary 15, 2025
The Killing of Brian Thompson was AwfulDecember 30, 2024
Recent Comments