by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Sep 23, 2008
Although not explicitly mentioned, it appears Dr. Val Jones, the Senior Medical Director at Revolution Health, has quietly left the company and is starting her own venture, Better Health. You can read an interview where she discusses her new life online, with not a...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 18, 2008
In today’s Windows Secrets, Stuart Johnston writes about the pros and cons of having our health data out on the Internet, as proposed by Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. Quotes: “Selling prescription records is a multibillion-dollar-a-year...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 5, 2008
Avery Comarow’s blog on USNews.com is my personal find of the week. I once worked with Avery, so I know he tells it like it is, and he’s tackling an important topic. Check out his take on the CMS Hospital Compare page: Hospital Deaths Go Public....
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 19, 2008
From ScienceRoll: “Jan Martens at Medblog.nl … mentioned Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald who should be considered one of the best examples of e-patients in the world. See why…” Hey Jen McCabe Gorman, what is it with the Dutch?
by Susannah Fox | Jun 30, 2008
Check out the Diabetes Mine Design Challenge winners for examples of how e-patients can help heal health care, as we like to say around here. I’m especially taken with the Pez dispenser-inspired Maximum Slide gadget, but then again I may just be charmed by the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 23, 2008
The Reasonably Well blog is authored by Julia Oleinik, a patient of Sjogren’s Syndrome, a progressive autoimmune disease. She read the e-patient white paper (have you?), and she gets it. Welcome to the family!
by Gilles Frydman | Jun 6, 2008
A really interesting evaluation of 500 medical stories from the press covering treatments,tests, products & procedures is available at PLoS. This should be required reading for anyone interested in the power of e-patient groups, since these groups very often...
by Dan Hoch | Jun 5, 2008
Orly Avitzur, a neurologist and e-Patient savvy doc, is now a medical editor at the Consumer’s Union/Consumer Reports. She’s written an excellent short review of some of the important developments in what we’ve come to call participatory medicine...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 3, 2008
A tip of the e-hat to Dr. Ted for this *splendid* reading for people involved in EMR/PHR: SEEDIE: Society for Exorbitantly Expensive and Difficult to Implement EHRs. Don’t miss the sub-pages.
by Susannah Fox | May 29, 2008
Over on the Inkwell, our own Jon Lebkowsky is interviewing Clay Shirky, author of “Here Comes Everybody.” My favorite quote so far: “The places where experts matter and flourish are places where it is expertise, rather than authority (which is to say...
by e-Patient Dave | May 22, 2008
What patients really want: an introduction to the e-patient” cites our own Dr. Danny Sands in his video editorial on Medscape.
by Susannah Fox | May 15, 2008
If you have doubts about the impact of social media on health care, please read this 2005 post on The Health Care Blog about a grandmother’s campaign on behalf of her grandson. There’s a lot of heart (and snark) in the comments.
by e-Patient Dave | May 12, 2008
Maybe it’s just me, but this one’s a little astounding. According to Paul Levy’s blog, a Perspectives column in the New England Journal of Medicine “suggests that doctors enhance their relationship with patients when they deal with [them] in a...
by Susannah Fox | Apr 16, 2008
Ted Eytan’s April 16, 2008, iHealthBeat column lays out the benefits of providing real-time, secure access to health records: “As our profession understands the benefits of patient partnership better, more medical groups are discovering that there...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 13, 2008
“A well-educated patient is easier to treat. A badly educated patient is very difficult to treat.” This and other choice quotes you’ll find in, How to deal with the digitally empowered patient, a four-doctor roundtable discussion hosted by Scott V....
by Susannah Fox | Mar 12, 2008
Check out this interview with Matthew Zachary, founder of ImTooYoungForThis (cancer resources for GenX and GenY).
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Feb 15, 2008
Want to know who wants to be your next personal health record (PHR) provider? Check out this great run down of the current players in the PHR market, along with some insights into what motivates them to be the company between you and your personal health information....
by Cheryl Greene | Feb 1, 2008
e-Patients Scholar, Cheryl Greene presented the e-Patient perspective to women healthcare leaders at X2HN. Her talk titled, Making the Most of Health 2.0, was presented at their annual meeting in San Diego, CA. In the audience was Congresswoman Nancy Johnson....
by Susannah Fox | Jan 29, 2008
Check out this video editorial by Dr. Danny Sands entitled “ePatients: Engaging Patients in Their Own Care.” (Note: sign-up is free for site access.)
by Cheryl Greene | Jan 25, 2008
Check out Dr. Alan Greene’s guest expert Blog on NYTimes.com. He’s answering readers’ questions e-Patient style!
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