by Casey Quinlan | Feb 3, 2014
For e-patients and others who list themselves on Texas Medical Institute of Technology’s SpeakerLink, this very meaty post by Society of Hospital Medicine founder and world-renowned leader of the hospitalist movement Dr. Bob Wachter is required reading. After...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 30, 2014
Prolog by e-Patient Dave: “Patients Included” was created by Lucien Engelen in the Netherlands for his initiative to have patients speak at all medical events. We in the patient community are taking it everywhere we can. But sometimes – as in this...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 19, 2013
As we’ve said endlessly here (and in Washington), one of the key enablers of better healthcare is access to information. For that subject there’s no more important job in the world than America’s National Coordinator for Health IT, who runs ONC...
by Ileana Balcu | Dec 3, 2013
Radiation oncologist Matthew Katz is a lifetime member of SPM who blogs regularly for the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Mayo Clinic Social Media Health Network. In this guest post he offers his view of 23andMe, the personal genomics service that’s in...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 24, 2013
Update Nov. 26: great news! In today’s NY Times is Gynecologists May Treat Men, Board Says in Switch! Their reason for the change is still totally doctor-centric – even the mention of patients is about “the doctor-patient relationship,” not...
by Casey Quinlan | Nov 18, 2013
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his “Ninety-Five Theses” to the wooden doors of Wittenberg Cathedral, sparking a global reformation of the Christian faith that’s still going on today. In the 1950s and 1960s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked to drive inclusion for all in...
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