by e-Patient Dave | Jun 27, 2010
A recurring training topic on this blog, originally for e-patients but also for clinicians and policy people, is understanding statistics. (See posts in that category.) Not only are statistics often misinterpreted; even when they’re correctly understood,...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 12, 2010
The opening anecdote of the e-patient white paper tells of a patient who impersonated a doctor in 1994, to get his hands on an article about an operation he was about to have. He got busted. Two years later episode 139 of Seinfeld had something similar – Kramer...
by Gilles Frydman | Jun 9, 2010
This is the first of two posts about the inspiring Patients 2.0 panel I helped organized at Health 2.0 DC. This one will explain the rationale for organizing such a panel. The second will provide a link to all the presentations and to the panelist biographies. A while...
by Gilles Frydman | May 24, 2010
It may be time to mention again the definition of Participatory Medicine: Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full...
by e-Patient Dave | May 20, 2010
In my May 5 keynote at the ICSI / IHI Colloquium, one of my slides said “Empower the young.” It cited David Blumenthal MD, National Coordinator for health IT at the Dept of Health & Human Services. I’d recently heard him say, “At...
by e-Patient Dave | May 8, 2010
This is an essay I (mostly) wrote April 28 on Vince Kuraitis’s e-Care Management Blog, part of his series with David Kibbe MD about the Federal EMR incentives, titled “Is HITECH Working?” The series is, in my opinion, the most useful update...
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