by Jon Lebkowsky | Apr 21, 2011
Economist Paul Krugman, blogging at the New York Times, argues that patients should not be referred to as “consumers.” Krugman says “The idea that all this can be reduced to money — that doctors are just people selling services to consumers of health...
by Susannah Fox | Apr 13, 2011
I received an email the other day containing the following question: Are you aware of any randomized trials – in progress, or published – that examined the impact of social networking web 2.0, etc. on patient-level variables (e.g., improved rates of preventive health...
by Susannah Fox | Apr 11, 2011
PatientsLikeMe opened up to every condition today. From their press release: Today, PatientsLikeMe (www.patientslikeme.com) announces the expansion of its platform and invites patients with any condition to join. The five-year-old free online health data-sharing...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 22, 2011
There’s so much going on health IT these days, it’ll make your head spin. Fortunately, it appears a bang-up good job is being done by the health IT team at HHS and the implementers they’re working with. Example of “head spin” and...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 16, 2011
As a reminder that even the best technology still relies on humans not making dumb mistakes, PCMag.com reports that Health Net’s technology partner, IBM, has seemingly lost a few hard drives. Normally not a big deal. Except that these drives contained patient...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2011
Noted patient activist Dale Ann Micalizzi, founder of Justin’s HOPE (blog), has just been named co-chair of the 2011 Forum of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI Forum is a major international healthcare event, with over 5,000 people attending...
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