by e-Patient Dave | Jul 25, 2010
Next in our series, Mark Boguski, MD, PhD is both a personal and a corporate member, as co-founder with Dr. Alan Littleford of ResoundingHealth. If you’d like to submit your own reason, write to me. (This is not an “invitation only” series –...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 12, 2010
Dr. Roni Zeiger, MD is currently Chief Health Strategist at Google where he has helped create and lead Google Health. Â He continues to see patients on occasional evenings and weekends at a local urgent care center. Â Roni earned his MD at Stanford and completed his...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 2, 2010
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 partners. This new definition devised by the board of the Society of...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 26, 2010
Last week we posted a request from Dr. Bertalan Meskó for video messages from e-patients to his “Medicine 2.0” course. Here’s my submission. (This is my first “vlog” (video blog) so the quality’s not great – like everything...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 16, 2009
I am about to punk my well-known doctor. :–) Me being me, I just had my annual physical. Great visit and all that. Yesterday I got a letter about my lab results. My cholesterol and weight are trending unfavorably, so the good doctor said “you need to take...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2009
There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 12, 2009
Next week at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston, the Society for Participatory Medicine will launch its new journal. In keeping with the society’s spirit of physician-patient partnership, the Co-Editors in Chief are a physician and a patient: Charlie...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 3, 2009
That’s the strongest language yet in our “Why Participatory Medicine” series. And it’s not our words – it’s the words of a board certified neurosurgeon after he heard the Participatory Medicine message at Medicine 2.0 last month....
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 1, 2009
I can barely contain my happiness (oh heck, I’ll let it spill) at this: participatory patients and physicians creating educational content, using free internet software tools, and posting it for people to read (free) around the world. I’m a member of the...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 11, 2009
Patient safety is important, and the safety of internet health data has been an ongoing concern for ages. We now have a great addition to the literature: “Trying to Measure the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?”...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 26, 2009
One of the key learnings of my first year as a student of the e-patient movement, studying how healthcare is evolving, is this: People get radicalized when it gets personal. This is one such story: it’s the e-patient awakening of a long-time personal friend of...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2009
NY Times: Rural Doctor Finds Benefits in Electronics. I know all the experts have a thousand reasons why “it’s not that simple,” but I do this stuff all the time in my day job and I don’t know what’s such a big freakin mystery. Having...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 19, 2009
Update 3/21: For easier reference, I’m editing this to incorporate some goodies from comments below. Here’s a little game that just might turn into something transformational. Since I started learning about this world of participatory medicine, I’ve...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 9, 2009
Well, this ought to generate some chatter among us e-literati who’ve been trying to get noticed by the stodgies! (Or, as Pew would say, “The 74% of the 80% onliners who look for health info are 99.9% happy to see this.”) The issue of Health Affairs...
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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