by Susannah Fox | Jan 8, 2009
Here is my third post in a series of look-backs at the November 2008 Chronic Disease Care conference in San Francisco. (OK, yes, it’s now January 2009 — I’m savoring the experience, not Twittering it!) The first post was about spreading improvement...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 11, 2008
Andrew Schorr is the founder of Patient Power, LLC, and shares this dispatch, his second for e-patients.net: I had a whirlwind weekend at the Moscone Center in San Francisco where I broadcast five and a half hours of live interviews with leading hematologists and...
by Alan Greene | Jul 8, 2008
Our dear friend, our brother, our hero, the inimitable Doc Tom, died on Good Friday 2006. Even though his untimely death came as a shock, Tom Ferguson had already far outlived the projections at the time of his Myeloma diagnosis over 15 years before. July 8 is Tom’s...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 14, 2008
The Information Therapy conference just ended yesterday and my head is buzzing with a few favorite moments: 1) Josh Seidman’s speech connecting our venue, the Newseum, to his mission by talking about the history of the U.S. press, mail system, and medicine: the...
by Cheryl Greene | May 28, 2008
I was just at a meeting in Atlanta with Alan (who works with Atlanta based A.D.A.M. Inc.) and saw an advanced demo of their cool new iPhone tool — Symptom Navigator (iphone.adam.com). It’s a free new mobile health content tool for iPhone & iTouch. The...
by e-Patient Dave | May 11, 2008
Chapter 12 of Randy Pausch’s best-selling book The Last Lecture opens with a classic anecdote of what it looks like when an empowered patient practices participatory medicine with an equally participatory care team: CT scans revealed I had pancreatic cancer, and it...
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