by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | 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...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 1, 2010
Claudia Williams at ONC has job openings for “a couple of talented folks” to add to the high-energy team, to work on State HIE. Details: (HIE is Heath Information Exchange. The State HIE program is described here.) Claudia says:...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 24, 2010
Fascinating post by Louis Gray, reflecting on the transient nature of much of social media.
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 23, 2010
Trisha Torrey sums it up niftily on her Patient Empowerment Blog at About.com.
by Jon Lebkowsky | Aug 19, 2010
Howard Rheingold has shared video of a backyard discussion he had with technology pioneers Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson when they dropped by for dinner, along with Howard’s wife Judy and Nelson’s wife Marlene Mallicoat. Brief but intense discussion of the...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 9, 2010
If you haven’t listened to the Patient Voices series on The New York Times site, let me be the first to recommend it. I spend quite a bit of time writing up survey data, working with moderately large respondent pools (N=2,253 is the number of people who...
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