by Susannah Fox | Feb 24, 2009
Andre Blackman has posted an important essay about mobile tech’s potential in health care — and the imperative to not miss this cluetrain.
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 13, 2009
At today’s meeting of the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Tech Leaders Healthcare Cluster I learned about VisibleBody.com. Astounding visualization tool – like the old plastic Visible Man/Woman models of long ago. Pan, tilt, rotate, zoom. I can see...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 13, 2009
“Ask your patients what they use, what they want to use, and how you can be there for them.” — Ted Eytan’s advice to IT-reluctant health professionals in a Twitterview with Diario Médico.
by Susannah Fox | Feb 2, 2009
Amy Tenderich weighs in on the name debate: patient vs. consumer. Almost anything is better than cyberchondriac or medical googler, but e-patient is still my favorite.
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 27, 2009
This reinforces my repeated assertion that healthcare is far, far behind ordinary enterprise in adoption of practices that work: “When computers replace paper, patient mortality rates drop 15% during hospitalization, among other metrics, according to a study of...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 22, 2009
E-Patient Dave spotted an informative post on the Science Blog about an inherent shortcoming of the publication process: failed trials don’t get published, so others don’t have the chance to learn from them. His post about it here. (Where did he learn...
by Susannah Fox | Jan 15, 2009
Bob Coffield’s slide set, Consumer Driven Health Care: The Impact of Social Media and Health 2.0, is a lawyer’s eye view of the current market. Plus he included a couple neat Wordles.
by Susannah Fox | Jan 9, 2009
Our own John Grohol has an interesting article up on PsychCentral about teens, sex, technology, and the online disinhibition effect (comments are also open on Well). For us: Does online disinhibition play a role in everyone’s use of online health resources?...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 26, 2008
Your perspectives please? On my own blog a somewhat surprising discussion has started about the cost impact of malpractice issues, as part of the total American healthcare budget. I cited some Congressional Budget Office data and some newcomers have shown up....
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Dec 5, 2008
The Association of Health Care Journalists has launched a new blog called Covering Health and it’s well worth adding to your blogroll.
by Cheryl Greene | Dec 3, 2008
Dr. Alan Greene has been on a mission to find out all he can about organic food. You can read all about his three year journey as “The 100 Percent Organic Man” on the New York Times article and Blog post by Tara Parker-Pope. He just ended a year as the...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 30, 2008
A tip of the twitter-hat to @TimOReilly for this, from Science News: When Florence Nightingale arrived at a British hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War, she found a nightmare of misery and chaos. Men lay crowded next to each other in endless corridors. The air...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 25, 2008
Josh Seidman asks a very good question that goes toward our discussion of spreading improvement and the digital divide, “If [targeted] interventions… have been shown to have an enormous impact on the health of these populations, maybe Ix and related...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 13, 2008
David Kibbe’s THCB post, Confessions of a Physician EMR Champion, has stirred debate in the comments section including some key insights from our own Gilles Frydman, who points out the need to add “patients” to the list of stakeholders, and Christine...
by Gilles Frydman | Nov 12, 2008
We constantly assume that writing the blogs posts is one of the ways to help shape the dialogue on medicine and healthcare reforms. I suppose that for many participants in this blog it has become a very serious occupation, one that they consider worth the effort, both...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 10, 2008
Ted Eytan’s Photo Friday features a crowd of chronic disease care providers listening to patients tell their stories — and smiling as they see the impact of what they do. As I wrote in the comments, I’ll post here soon with more notes, but this photo...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 3, 2008
From Judith Graham’s healthcare blog at the Chicago Tribune: “Doctors often describe a sense of shock when they experience the medical system from a patient’s perspective. A gripping account of this phenomenon comes from Janice M. Scully, a Virginia...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 26, 2008
As the BMJ noted in its survey of physicians’ use of placebos this past week, the placebo effect is a powerful treatment. Judith Graham’s “Triage” blog examines this phenomenon and reminds us that it’s not the pill that’s causing...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 18, 2008
50 Ways To Squeeze Value From Your Healthcare Dollar Without Killing Yourself. An interesting list from one of the main websites specialized in frugal living. There is not much about patient empowerment but there are many interesting bits of advice. The comments...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 3, 2008
As previously discussed, Waterfront Media acquired Revolution Health in a deal the New York Times valued at $300 million. Waterfront Media is a Brooklyn-based company that runs Everyday Health.com and represents many condition-specific health sites (including...
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