by Susannah Fox | Feb 13, 2009
“Ask your patients what they use, what they want to use, and how you can be there for them.” — Ted Eytan’s advice to IT-reluctant health professionals in a Twitterview with Diario Médico.
by Susannah Fox | Feb 2, 2009
Amy Tenderich weighs in on the name debate: patient vs. consumer. Almost anything is better than cyberchondriac or medical googler, but e-patient is still my favorite.
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 27, 2009
This reinforces my repeated assertion that healthcare is far, far behind ordinary enterprise in adoption of practices that work: “When computers replace paper, patient mortality rates drop 15% during hospitalization, among other metrics, according to a study of...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 22, 2009
E-Patient Dave spotted an informative post on the Science Blog about an inherent shortcoming of the publication process: failed trials don’t get published, so others don’t have the chance to learn from them. His post about it here. (Where did he learn...
by Susannah Fox | Jan 15, 2009
Bob Coffield’s slide set, Consumer Driven Health Care: The Impact of Social Media and Health 2.0, is a lawyer’s eye view of the current market. Plus he included a couple neat Wordles.
by Susannah Fox | Jan 9, 2009
Our own John Grohol has an interesting article up on PsychCentral about teens, sex, technology, and the online disinhibition effect (comments are also open on Well). For us: Does online disinhibition play a role in everyone’s use of online health resources?...
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