by e-Patient Dave | Aug 30, 2011
Today’s New York Times has a review of two new books, Doctors with Plenty of Time for Patients. Reviewer Abigail Zuger MD says “Suppose … you could actually rent the doctor’s attention for as long as you needed it?” In these books two doctor...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 29, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published a research paper, “Exploring Everyday Health Routines of a Low Socioeconomic Population through Multimedia Elicitations.” Participants in this novel study used smartphones to capture pictures and...
by Jessie Gruman | Aug 25, 2011
Not really, but check out this new campaign by the Puget Sound Health Alliance aimed at getting the employees of their purchaser members (businesses and labor union trusts) to make better use of primary care. These videos* will make you chuckle / guffaw / giggle even...
by Joe Graedon | Aug 24, 2011
Found in the August 24/31 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association: A quote from Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001): “Significant changes in human behavior can be brought about rapidly only if the persons who are expected to change participate in...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 22, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published a Media Watch piece about a new initiative from the California HealthCare Foundation called Team Up for Health. This website is a good example of an online tool that helps primary care providers support patients...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 17, 2011
Anytime Susannah Fox tweets “I am fascinated by…,” I stop what I’m doing and click. Today it’s this: “I am fascinated by this healthcare costs blog: healthcaresavvy.wbur.org Thanks @agropper @WBUR @stephenjdowns.” It’s...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 16, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published a review of “Out of Her Mind: Women Writing on Madness.” Writer Meredith Linden, who lives with bipolar disorder, describes how the selections in this book can help validate people struggling with...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 9, 2011
Social media is well established in our society and it shows much promise as a tool of patient-physician communication. But despite some cases of good and enriching rapport between patients and physicians in social media, the medical world, on the whole, is still...
by Jessie Gruman | Aug 5, 2011
Check out Gary Schwitzer of Health News Review on actions you can and should take. Part of a short five part video series. http://www.healthnewsreview.org/blog/2011/07/part-5-of-video-series-what-you-can-do-if-you-see-slipshod-health-care-news.html...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 5, 2011
One of the most common questions about e-patient skills is how to tell the difference between good and bad information, as we research. A wonderful resource just passed its first birthday: Retraction Watch, a blog that digs into the details when science falls short....
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 27, 2011
SPM co-founder and co-chair emeritus Alan Greene MD, of DrGreene.com, just posted this tasty numerical comparison. Remedy, he says? “Working together can be one of the best ways to prevent errors, which is one of the reasons I believe...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 27, 2011
Our own e-Patient Dave is featured in an extensive interview with Kim Chandler McDonald, an Australian journalist who is passionate about what she calls the “meHealth movement.” Part one of their conversation is posted today to coincide with the TED...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2011
“Health is social,” says SPM member Phil Baumann, RN (@PhilBaumann) at HealthIsSocial.com. Slate has a dramatic story of how a mother’s Facebook network helped spot – rapidly – Kawasaki Disease, a rare auto-immune disease that the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 9, 2011
Awesome short post by Twitter buddy AnneMarie Cunningham (Twitter @AMCunningham), a GP in Cardiff, UK. The post starts like this: “On Sunday afternoon I spotted Atul Gawande tweeting whilst watching the Wimbledon final… I thought I would let him know that...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jul 7, 2011
Well, it was bound to happen. Skin Scan is a new iPhone app that purports to analyze your moles for evidence of malignancy — all in the application itself through its own proprietary algorithms. Just take a few photos over time, and it will analyze their...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 30, 2011
Strictly speaking this isn’t about participatory medicine, but it is about being an empowered consumer of care. There are several dimensions to empowerment, including (but not limited to): Knowing what you want Recognizing whether you’re getting it When...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 23, 2011
e-Patients who want to collaborate with their physicians, and be responsible for their medical decisions, need to clearly understand what constitutes good evidence. It’s not always easy. Now Richard Smith, a 25 year editor of the British Medical Journal, has...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 18, 2011
Engaged patients and families, alert: the NY Times reports (here) on a form of unwarranted practice variation that has been exposing elders to excess radiation. Many smaller hospitals have been needlessly exposing their Medicare patients to double CT scans on the same...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 17, 2011
Thanks to SPM member Janice McCallum for this tweet: “Required reading for all HC & doc rating sites: RT @infocommerce: Rating the BBB.” Good, concise depiction of the perils of creating an evaluation system.
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jun 16, 2011
The BBC reports the story of Daniel Sencier, a prostate cancer patient who complained about delays in scheduling surgery at Cumberland Infirmary in the UK. Sencier blogged about his experience in the interest of improving care, and for his trouble received a legal...
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