by Susannah Fox | Feb 9, 2013
For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 7, 2013
Adapted from a letter distributed this week to members of our Society for Participatory Medicine, by President Sarah Krug. The Society for Participatory Medicine is excited to announce our collaboration on a variety of initiatives with HIMSS, one of the nation’s...
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...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 16, 2012
I haven’t blogged about it much this year due to the pressures of my own work, but I’m seriously impressed with the relevance, quality and user-friendliness of the work being done by the folks at ONC (the health IT branch of the department of Health &...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2012
The PDF at right is a summary of sample data from this new dataset. The Leapfrog Group is a highly respected patient safety organization. They’ve earned a reputation for carefully and thoughtfully assessing providers’ actual performance in quality and...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 7, 2012
Check this trailer for a new program, to be launched in January, produced by WNED, the PBS affiliate in Buffalo: One of the challenges of starting a movement like this, especially a Society with little budget, is that you have to bootstrap, like any modern business:...
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