by e-Patient Dave | Jul 28, 2012
What is the role of the patient? As we noted in April, TEDMED and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have designated “The Role of the Patient” as one of the twenty TEDMED Great Challenges for 2013, and the TEDMED site will host a big conversation about it...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 24, 2012
Think everything in your medical record is spotless and flawless? Think again: almost everyone I know who’s checked their record has found flaws, omissions, orders that were never carried out. There’s a lot we can do, e-patients, engaged consumers, to...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 17, 2012
As Meaningful Use rolls out, and providers are required to share data with us, there are a lot of concerns about whether their lives will spin out of control as patients besiege them with ignorant questions. We’ve discussed this in our many posts about the...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jun 27, 2012
This post originally appeared at http://socialmedia.mayoclinic.org/2012/06/20/2012-patient-caregiver-scholarship-contest-for-social-media-summit/. The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is offering an opportunity for patient advocates to attend its Social Media...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 19, 2012
Susannah Fox’s post about this two years ago pretty much went over my head: I didn’t get how important it was. But at this month’s White House conference on patient-generated data, I met Nikolai Kirienko, who was the central specimen in her post. The...
by Alan Greene | Jun 5, 2012
At Health Datapalooza today in Washington, DC, the Society for Participatory Medicine announced the live beta launch of our Seal Program. The SPM Seal will be awarded to clinicians and to patients who make four simple, achievable, but powerful participatory...
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