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@AfternoonNapper on two Stanford medicine blogs

by | Dec 2, 2011

New SPM member @AfternoonNapper Sarah Kucharski was just featured on the Stanford School of Medicine blog, for a conversation she had on their Medicine X blog (emerging technologies) about how web-savvy patients are changing what’s acceptable in medicine. Well...

What do Participatory Medicine and OWS have in common?

by | Nov 1, 2011

The short answer is “plenty” but the longer one will have to wait. This is a work in progress, but in the meantime, I’m surfing the net and finding great stuff to share. In particular, see this video or read the transcript of ethicist Harriet...

JoPM: Patient-oriented content on hospital websites

by | Nov 1, 2011

The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a research paper entitled “Promoting Participatory Medicine with Social Media: New Media Applications on Hospital Websites that Enhance Health Education and e-Patients’ Voices.” The study analyzed the...

Health Info Have-Nots

by | Oct 18, 2011

I just published a quick take on who doesn’t gather health information online, including the stark finding that three-quarters of U.S. adults who have less than a high school education say they do not get health information online. One survey question I cited...

e-Patient Dave corrects a “troll”

by | Oct 4, 2011

e-Patient Dave deBronkart is profiled in Technology Review, and at his own site responds to a “troll” whose comment on the Technology Review piece is dismissive of his e-patient experience.  

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