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Article: The Rise of the Empowered Patient

by | Sep 24, 2010

Pathways, a Scientific American magazine, has a long new article The Rise of the Empowered Patient. It quotes, among others, our friend Lucien Engelen (@Zorg20, which is Dutch for Health 2.0). I’m starting an all day meeting so I can’t absorb yet –...

The Power of Mobile (Video)

by | Sep 15, 2010

The video of my Mayo Transform 2010 speech, The Power of Mobile, is now up on the conference site as well as on YouTube. It was an honor to be part of this event. Many thanks to David Rosenman and his team for inviting me!  

NPR: Three Tips for Picking a Better Doctor

by | Sep 14, 2010

On Monday NPR’s Scott Hensley posted: “Between the Internet and all the data insurance companies and the government collect on doctors, you’d think it would be a lot easier than it used to be to find a good one. But it’s not.” Sound...

Dealing – together – with medical error

by | Sep 9, 2010

The Running A Hospital blog has another discussion of dealing with medical error. This time, the hospital has opened up an error of its own (a wrong side surgery) for examination by the Open School of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Sample comments: From...

Doctors Say One Thing, Patients Hear Another

by | Sep 7, 2010

The Boston Globe has a revealing article about a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine where patients thought that a heart stent would help prevent another heart attack. But doctors had only told patients that it would relieve future chest pain. How can such...

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