by e-Patient Dave | Jul 9, 2011
Awesome short post by Twitter buddy AnneMarie Cunningham (Twitter @AMCunningham), a GP in Cardiff, UK. The post starts like this: “On Sunday afternoon I spotted Atul Gawande tweeting whilst watching the Wimbledon final… I thought I would let him know that...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jul 7, 2011
Well, it was bound to happen. Skin Scan is a new iPhone app that purports to analyze your moles for evidence of malignancy — all in the application itself through its own proprietary algorithms. Just take a few photos over time, and it will analyze their...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 30, 2011
Strictly speaking this isn’t about participatory medicine, but it is about being an empowered consumer of care. There are several dimensions to empowerment, including (but not limited to): Knowing what you want Recognizing whether you’re getting it When...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 23, 2011
e-Patients who want to collaborate with their physicians, and be responsible for their medical decisions, need to clearly understand what constitutes good evidence. It’s not always easy. Now Richard Smith, a 25 year editor of the British Medical Journal, has...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 18, 2011
Engaged patients and families, alert: the NY Times reports (here) on a form of unwarranted practice variation that has been exposing elders to excess radiation. Many smaller hospitals have been needlessly exposing their Medicare patients to double CT scans on the same...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 17, 2011
Thanks to SPM member Janice McCallum for this tweet: “Required reading for all HC & doc rating sites: RT @infocommerce: Rating the BBB.” Good, concise depiction of the perils of creating an evaluation system.
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