by Gilles Frydman | Sep 14, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine’s Health Policy and Reform just published an opinion piece about the first public release of online report cards regarding 221 of the 1,100 US cardiac surgery programs. The authors believe that this event will fuel the debate...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 9, 2010
If you were designing a disease treatment system from scratch, bringing together clinicians, patients, researchers, and advocates, what platform would you use to take advantage of the community created by this umbrella group? This isn’t just some health geek...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 17, 2010
In May, I spoke at the Chronic Care and Prevention Congress about my most recent report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet.” I talked about the social life of health information and the internet’s power to connect people with information and with...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 8, 2010
I think conferences are deeply affected by the spirit of their host city. San Francisco has its hackers and dreamers, Boston has its entrepreneurs and ivy, Paris has its pomp and worldliness. At Health 2.0 DC yesterday, my city showed that it has passion and...
by e-Patient Dave | May 26, 2010
As many of you know, a hard part of being in the world of cancer fighters is that sometimes we lose one. I’m sad to report the passing on April 23 of Judy Feder, who shared her powerful e-patient story here just a year ago. Please re-read how, through her...
by Susannah Fox | May 21, 2010
Facebook has sparked a new debate about privacy and I think it’s time to bring it to health care. What does it mean when millions of people flock to share/overshare information, even as Facebook’s default privacy settings have slowly become openness...
by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2010
Patient networks for the win! MIT Technology Review: “Earlier this month, the journal Lancet Neurology published a study showing that the generic drug lithium did nothing to slow the course of ALS … Eighteen months earlier, PatientsLikeMe, a for-profit...
by Susannah Fox | May 1, 2010
“The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations.” “Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber. HIPAA was passed in 1996, almost perfectly timed to...
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 Susannah Fox | Mar 24, 2010
For the past 5 months I have been immersed in data and narrative about chronic disease. The result, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” is a report sponsored by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. We find that living with a...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 11, 2010
If you follow Jeff Jarvis on Twitter or read his blog, you know (maybe more than you wanted to) about his fight against prostate cancer. I’ve mostly paid attention to what he’s written about technology and journalism, but check out this excerpt from his...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 13, 2009
Note: if you do not use Twitter an explanation of this post’s title may be in order. #WhyPM is the Twitter hashtag we have been using collectively to announce the launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and to mention topics of interest from the Journal and...
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 Susannah Fox | Aug 27, 2009
CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen makes a compelling case in her column today: How to get Kennedy-esque health care on your budget. Anyone with internet access can gather the information they need to make better health decisions, as e-Patient Dave and Karen Parles did, and...
by Joe Graedon | Jun 25, 2009
Detecting drug complications is too important to leave to doctors or FDA administrators. We have learned the hard way that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) don’t detect all the adverse drug effects that may be important. Far too often, serious side effects...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 21, 2009
At the 25th annual TEPR+ conference in Palm Springs on Feb. 2, Alan Greene (DrGreene.com) gave the opening address. It was inspiring – I wish we had a video of it. Too bad so many attendees opted to skip the keynotes and fly into town late! Like, did you guys think...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 14, 2009
Cross-posted from my own blog, and then some E-patients, listen up. We have work to do, work we can do. For the past year I’ve been learning what I can about the American healthcare system. I started this not as an “injured” patient but as someone...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 4, 2009
Wendy White, Founder and President of Siren Interactive, contributes this essay: One in ten Americans is living with a rare disorder, but they are often overlooked in the media, in research circles, and in their local communities. The 2nd Annual Rare Disease Day on...
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...
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