by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 25, 2009
So with all this talk about healthcare technologies and the new budget and Health 2.0, you’d think that electronic medical records (EMRs) were on the rise. Perhaps they are, but as the Associated Press reports, fewer than 2 percent of providers have completely...
by Gilles Frydman | Mar 23, 2009
This is the third post in the unfortunate series about conflicts of interest. You must be kiddin’! That’s all Scott Reuben, MD, the doctor Scientific American calls “a medical Madoff”, had to say after putting the last two handful of nails into...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 12, 2009
We’ve been known to have our minds blown, but this one started as an eye-popper and got better. A friend writes: “Even the DoD is getting in the act: Patients urged to take charge of their care.” But holy cow, there was a LOT more behind that...
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 e-Patient Dave | Feb 27, 2009
Update January 2011: Be sure to read the comments, which have links to many valuable resources. This item today, from MedPage, underscores the importance of having our eyes open about the human frailties in the research process that our lives can depend on. ORLANDO,...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jan 30, 2009
You may have heard of the Wellsphere blogging controversy (if not, here’s one take on the issue, and here’s another from a different perspective). In a nutshell, Wellsphere went to bloggers in the health world and asked them if they could syndicate their...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 18, 2009
This topic isn’t directly in our wheelhouse here in the e-patient movement (“empowered, engaged, equipped and enabled”), but as I continue one patient’s odyssey in learning about healthcare, a discussion on Paul Levy’s blog has taught me...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 15, 2009
E-patients, this is a call to action. Now. I want you to go express yourself on Paul Levy’s blog. Most readers of health policy blogs know what a costly, inefficient mess healthcare in America has become. Paul Levy would like the people in his business to work...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 2, 2008
Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2008
A lot of effort and study is going into improving healthcare and untangling its cost structure. So methinks it’s nearly criminal when someone blocks adoption of a treatment that’s better, especially when it’s also less expensive. Case in point, from...
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 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 John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 9, 2008
I along with e-Patient Dave, Dan Hoch and Danny Sands, attended the second Health 2.0 Northeast meeting in Cambridge, Mass. on Tuesday night (Oct. 7, 2008). It was an initially well-attended event, with up to 150 people who came out to network (old-school style!) and...
by Susannah Fox | Oct 1, 2008
The New York Times published an amazing array of health articles yesterday, each one of which is worthy of a discussion on this blog (and not just because we were mentioned in this one). But I also want to take a minute to appreciate the entire online Health section...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Sep 19, 2008
Why is Steve Case’s online health venture already looking to sell itself, just a year and a half after it launched? Yet another tale of hubris in the e-health sector. Back in 1999, I left the mental health site I founded — the largest site of its kind at...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 18, 2008
In today’s Windows Secrets, Stuart Johnston writes about the pros and cons of having our health data out on the Internet, as proposed by Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. Quotes: “Selling prescription records is a multibillion-dollar-a-year...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 25, 2008
Is it “disordered” behavior to Google your doctor? An article in JAMA suggests that doctors be on their guard. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an article about how doctors should be aware of how they are portrayed online...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jul 22, 2008
A new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) suggests that inaccurate medical information is easily found and regurgitated by students. But the topic the study chose to study — vaccines — has been under increasing scrutiny and...
by Dan Hoch | Jul 10, 2008
In a piece in the New York Times 7/9/08 (Abuses are Found in Online Sales of Medication) a report (also out Weds) from Columbia University is described. According to the authors, 85% of online sites that sell medications directly to the public do not require a...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 3, 2008
Today’s entry in the CNN.com “Empowered Patient” series, by medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, is titled Empowered heroes’ hard lessons now help others:This week, as we reflect on American heroes, we’re saluting a few “patient...
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