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HHS posts Consumer e-Health job. Apply by 8/16.

by | Jul 15, 2010

Josh Seidman, Director of Meaningful Use, sent this. It’s for a two year full time job in DC, possibly extendable. No relocation costs will be paid – you’re on yer own. :–) From what I hear, talking to people working in HHS these days, “full...

Participant-Entrepreneurs: Innovating Toward Better Health

by | May 13, 2010

Nikolai Kirienko, Crohnology.MD Project Director, is setting a new standard for transparency in research and innovation as he blogs about his work with Project HealthDesign: On days where I could have benefited from the feedback of [Observations of Daily Living] the...

A quote I won’t soon forget

by | Oct 15, 2009

Marcia Angell MD is a well-known, respected physician, long-time editor of NEJM. So it was a bit of a shock today when Amy Romano, blogger for Lamaze International, sent me this quote: It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is...

Journal of Participatory Medicine and e-Patients

by | Sep 29, 2009

A guest post by John Sharp of the Cleveland Clinic: If you have not read the e-Patient White Paper, you do not understand the future of medicine. Being an e-Patient is beyond being empowered. The subtitle of the paper, “How they can help us heal healthcare,” describes...

Regina Holliday’s mural is in the BMJ

by | Sep 12, 2009

We’ve written here before about Regina Holliday (follow her blog), whose husband Fred died June 17. In today’s edition of the British Medical Journal, her mural is the picture of the week: Ted Eytan MD took the picture and posted it on Flickr. Today he...

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