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Keep an eye out for tomorrow morning’s post

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 29, 2009

In our “Why Participatory Medicine” series, leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, tomorrow’s guest post will be a special treat for me. It contains a breakthrough insight about participatory medicine, and...

Journal of Participatory Medicine and e-Patients

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 29, 2009

A guest post by John Sharp of the Cleveland Clinic: If you have not read the e-Patient White Paper, you do not understand the future of medicine. Being an e-Patient is beyond being empowered. The subtitle of the paper, “How they can help us heal healthcare,” describes...

Participatory Medicine around the world: the Seven Preliminary Conclusions reach India

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 26, 2009

A Google alert popped up today, saying that a participatory physician in India had cited this blog. Don’t we love it when social media let empowering information spread! It’s exactly what our founder “Doc Tom” predicted with his now-famous 1995...

Give patients (that’s you) access to all their (your) data – so they can help

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 21, 2009

Cross-posted from my website, ePatientDave.com – the happy home for my new business! I’ve just returned from Toronto, where I gave the opening keynote at the Medicine 2.0 Congress. It was titled “Gimme My Damn Data,” which is an unconventional...

e-Patients and Participatory Physicians Creating Podcasts

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...

Social Media’s Promise for Public Health

by Susannah Fox | Aug 18, 2009

Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help. That’s my summary of presentations from last week’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media conference, where I had the sense,...