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Minnesota Supreme Court sides with patient on social media defamation suit

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 2, 2013

Guest post by SPM member @NickDawson, a former health system executive now focused on patient experience, staff happiness and healthcare innovation. He works for Frontier Health in Richmond, Virginia. There’s a moment where something changes direction,...

Heads up: New Pew Internet report coming out tomorrow

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 14, 2013

The report was issued overnight – see Susannah’s post here about it, media coverage (via Google), and blogs. I’m stealing some Susannah Fox thunder here because I can’t wait, and you should carve out a spot in your calendar...

“The Patient as Partner” in Medical Research at Radboud University

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 29, 2012

This encouraging news is adapted from the November cover story of Radboud University’s magazine Radbode (PDF, in Dutch, 1.6MB). Thanks to @LucienEngelen, initiator of this project, for forwarding it to us. Not surprisingly, Lucien’s also the creator of the...

When is patient data not patient data? When a patient wants his or her ICD data

by David Harlow | Nov 30, 2012

The latest news story to examine the issue of patient access to implantable cardiac defibrillator data (a variation on the theme of “gimme my damn data”) is an in-depth, Page One Wall Street Journal story featuring Society for Participatory Medicine...

“Mind the Gap” on patient engagement: uck, “What???” and the scapegoat disconnect

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 24, 2012

Over on Mind The Gap, Steve Wilkins (Twitter) has a poster about patient engagement that annoyed me:-) right out of the box – because although I pretty much like everything he does, the poster starts with what I find to be the ouchiest mental disconnect in all...

Hey lurkers – hi! Step right up, speak up here!

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 16, 2012

For a couple of years I’ve been wondering when controversy and snark would hit this movement. Looks like it showed up this morning. Today one of our members posted on our members-only email group: I was on a phone call recently with some colleagues in health IT...