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Cleveland Clinic To Give Patients Full Access to Data

Healthcare IT News posted a detailed story about how the Cleveland Clinic plans to roll out its new MyChart EMR to give patients complete access to their health records by the end of 2013. According to the article, the Cleveland Clinic believes this move is “the...

Eric Topol at Rock Health

Thanks to Carla Berg for sharing this: Eric Topol was on Rock Center tonight. He talked about the patient empowerment and give us our data themes he brings up towards the end, he did everything but mention #gmdd and patients in the drivers seat explicitly. The key to...

HIMSS blog featured e-Patient Dave

The HIMSS blog features e-Patient Dave, the 5 Es of e-Patients and how social media can help. http://blog.himss.org/2013/01/25/part-1-value-of-social-media-in-healthcare-is-already-outlined-just-not-realized/ For whatever reason – whether it’s budget, time, buy-in or...
Medical Errors: Will We Act Up, Fight Back?

Medical Errors: Will We Act Up, Fight Back?

(Originally published on the CFAH Prepared Patient Forum January 16, 2013) Sometimes, angry patients and dissident doctors and nurses warn us about the impending patient revolution – how health care is so unsafe, of such poor quality and so expensive for us patients...

The Waiting Room

Check out the documentary film, The Waiting Room, set in the emergency department of Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. I wrote a post about a screening and discussion in DC last night and I’m hoping to get a report from tonight’s Cambridge, MA, event. If...

About Healthcare’s Online Communities

From Hive Strategies, an interesting blog post talking about the healthcare”intimate public” – the communities that patients with a certain condition form with each other. An important part of being an e-patient is being engaged with others like...

What Do ‘Engaged’ Patients Do?

Member Eve Harris wrote another great blog post for KQED – Public Media for Northern California. It is about one woman’s personal decision on how to treat her breast cancer. A short extract below: Basila is strong evidence that individuals react...

Social Media Breakfast – Healthcare in the Social Media Era

If you are in Boston this Friday, you can attend the Social Media Breakfast. The SPM member Alicia Staley will present the progress of the  #bcsm (breast cancer social media) community. Other speakers will be there as well and it only costs $8.00. For more details and...

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