by Gilles Frydman | Nov 20, 2008
What’s wrong with this picture? While continuing to search for information regarding the collective statistical illiteracy issue covered a couple of days ago, I found a brand new article in the New England Journal of Medicine. As an exercise I decided to...
by Gilles Frydman | Nov 18, 2008
Everyone knows the supposed origin of the phrase. But as you can see here it goes back to Medicine: “Look at the dozens of operations by me this year without a death,” says the operator. His less enthusiastic neighbor thinks of the proverbial kinds of...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Nov 13, 2008
Public health is different than our personal health. Most people take for granted the role public health agencies play in our lives, but its primary emphasis is tracking disease data across the country in order to prevent a nationwide epidemic or pandemic. Nobody...
by Gilles Frydman | Nov 12, 2008
Information Silo:Â An information silo is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems… “Information silo” is a pejorative expression that is useful for describing the absence of operational reciprocity....
by Christine Gray | Nov 11, 2008
Okay, after monitoring e-patients.net and The Health Care Blog, I have to ask: Do doctors read? And if so, what? I know four things from my own experience (and watching “Grey’s Anatomy”). First, physicians are busy often exhausted individuals who...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Nov 10, 2008
Ruth Given has written a paper entitled, MD Rating Websites: Current State of the Space and Future Prospects (PDF), that was recently published on THCB. It’s a 39-page informal analysis (with an emphasis placed on informal) that takes a fairly good and...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 30, 2008
Too many years witnessing the same thing. First in the ACOR system. Then in many conferences about eHealth, e-Patients and now Health 2.0 and the Connected Health symposium at Harvard Medical School. Why is an entire segment of the US population almost completely...
by Alan Greene | Oct 26, 2008
Thomas Jefferson had a radical notion: When the people are well-informed, they can be trusted to govern themselves. This powerful idea worked to end our rule by the King, but at the time it didn’t apply to slaves; it didn’t apply to women. It STILL...
by Susannah Fox | Oct 24, 2008
An East Coast contingent of the e-patients group will be in Boston on Monday and Tuesday, speaking and listening at the Connected Health symposium. I’m going to present the Pew Internet Project’s latest data on social media and how the participatory Web is...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 22, 2008
JAMA has an interesting Patient Page on quality of care. The definitions of e-Patients and Participatory Medicine mention or point to quality of care. Are we talking about the same thing? NOT AT ALL! If the patient page of JAMA represents the official position of the...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 15, 2008
“Crowdsourcing: the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” Jeff Howe Or in other words Participatory Outsourcing. There is clearly...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 15, 2008
Yesterday, RocketBoom founder Andrew Baron took to the blogosphere to round up support in his efforts to get a rare drug approved for use in treating his father. His father was diagnosed with a very bad form of cancer called multiple myeloma and his dad’s doctor...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 13, 2008
“I noticed that my spellchecker doesn’t recognize ‘subprime’. […] I am guessing that will be remedied soon. “in the Beginning” Stephen J. Dubner; 09/30/2008 This is so true! Just like e-patient and participatory medicine! None of these...
by Dan Hoch | Jun 26, 2008
In order to take command of your health, you must have access to information. Fortunately, the availability of information has been greatly enhanced by the advent of the Internet. In fact, many people attribute the existence of the modern e-patient to the Internet....
by Gilles Frydman | Jun 20, 2008
I had not until this morning when I read a blog entry from Ted Eytan. I am not the only one, since a Google search for ODL definition leads nowhere. But I am sure that this is a term we have to learn fast. ODL stands for Observations of Daily Life and seems to be a...
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