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Texas Tribune: David Blumenthal on EHR

by Jon Lebkowsky | Oct 22, 2010

Texas Tribune interviewed Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, for a discussion of healthcare digital convergence (i.e. transition to electronic/digital healthcare records) and the potential impact on patient privacy. He’s...

Constant Beta vs. Evidence-Based Policy: Tension in the Data Continuum

by Gilles Frydman | Oct 11, 2010

I chose Lawrence Green’s article “The Field-Building Role of a Journal About Participatory Medicine and Health, and the Evidence Needed” for the Participatory Medicine Grand Rounds, because it addresses the issues at the heart of the deep impact of...

Building a Research Agenda for Participatory Medicine

by Susannah Fox | Oct 11, 2010

For this Grand Rounds, I chose David C. Kibbe & Joseph C. Kvedar’s article, “Building a Research Agenda for Participatory Medicine” (JoPM, Vol. 1, 2009). I will highlight two of their “ready-to-go” research questions: What is the role...

Sneak peek: MyHospitalIdea.com – consumer-driven improvement

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 6, 2010

Later this month something’s coming that I have a suspicion will be wonderful. Carlos Rizo of Toronto’s Health Strategy Innovation Cell tipped me off to this October 20 webcast: The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and the Health Strategy Innovation Cell...

Readers Digest: “Doctors confess their fatal mistakes”

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 2, 2010

My mom shot me a note today about this cover story in the new Reader’s Digest. Unhappy reading but good patient education. Cites some familiar names, e.g. Peter Pronovost and Robert Wachter. It’s good to see “wake up” messages in the mass...

e-Patient Connections 2010

by Susannah Fox | Sep 29, 2010

Kevin Kruse and his team have put together another incredible event in Philadelphia: e-Patient Connections 2010. Follow the tweets by searching for #epatcon or read the excellent summaries being written in real-time by Leigh Householder and Seth Quillin on the blog...