by e-Patient Dave | Mar 25, 2009
… or involved in an incident, as patient or provider, Paul Levy solicits your submission. He’s hosting the medical blogosphere’s Grand Rounds next Tuesday, and has chosen the topic When Things Go Awry. Details and instructions are here....
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 19, 2009
Update 3/21: For easier reference, I’m editing this to incorporate some goodies from comments below. Here’s a little game that just might turn into something transformational. Since I started learning about this world of participatory medicine, I’ve...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 12, 2009
We’ve been known to have our minds blown, but this one started as an eye-popper and got better. A friend writes: “Even the DoD is getting in the act: Patients urged to take charge of their care.” But holy cow, there was a LOT more behind that...
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 e-Patient Dave | Jan 9, 2009
I don’t get surprised these days as easily as I used to before I got “e.” But something popped my eyes open last weekend, and I dug into it. It goes to the heart of where the power is, in the doctor-patient relationship. But not just the power – the...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 31, 2008
I don’t know who Stanley Feld is, but he just became my friend, with a terrific post on doctor as coach, patient as player. It starts: The role of patients with chronic diseases and their physicians must be clear to both patients and physicians. Physicians are...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 5, 2008
This guest post is an article written by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, published in her local paper. It’s an example of widening distribution of principles and practices documented in the e-patient white paper. I’m grateful to Lisa for sharing these true stories of...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 3, 2008
Today’s entry in the CNN.com “Empowered Patient” series, by medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, is titled Empowered heroes’ hard lessons now help others:This week, as we reflect on American heroes, we’re saluting a few “patient...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Jun 26, 2008
Note added afterward by e-Patient Dave:Everyone, please read this post well and understand it well. I think this is a signal moment in our history. As much as I’ve believed in the principles developed by Doc Tom and his e-Patient Scholars Working Group, this...
by Susannah Fox | Apr 15, 2008
That’s Home Depot’s slogan and the subject of an excellent essay by Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine. Be sure to read the comments, where there is a healthy debate going on about mental illness, triple cheeseburgers, and paradigm shifts.
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 18, 2008
Corrected 3/23/08: The hospital does have online patient records, though they don’t include CT/MRI or mammogram results. See link and details below. This one strikes close to home, landing a year after removal of my own cancerous kidney … plus, a year...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 15, 2008
There’s been a lot of talk about Scott Haig’s November article in Time, When the Patient is a Googler: Alan Greene wrote on this blog; it was a hot topic on the NY Times “Well” blog; and Susannah Fox said: I’d love to hear what people...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 5, 2008
Today outside Boston I attended a “lunch-n-learn” session of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, titled “Patient, Heal Thyself: How to Succeed with Online Consumer Health Sites.” At first I thought it was going to be about creating...
by Alan Greene | Jan 15, 2008
In November 2007, Scott Haig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and medical columnist for TIME, wrote an article for the magazine called “When the Patient is a Googler”. He described a patient of his he called Susan, whom he felt was emblematic of patients who research...
by Cheryl Greene | Jan 6, 2008
For years Doc Tom urged us to facilitate patients’ publicly rating doctors as a way to accelerate e-pateints movement. Alan (DrGreene) was excited about this, even though he was a physician, but I was afraid it would open Pandora’s box. In the winter of...
by Susannah Fox | Jan 3, 2008
An article in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal traces the history of visiting patients in hospitals in England, from the 18th century to the present. Sadia Ismail and Graham Mulley paint quite a picture in their opening lines: From 2 pm they gather at the...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 2, 2007
One of the greatest benefits of the internet is its empowerment of patients by providing them with health information. We all know that doctors are human and make mistakes. Furthermore, the office practice of medicine is often as much an art as a science, so a...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 19, 2007
Don Kemper, CEO of Healthwise, calls on us to continue the debate that he & Tom began many years ago with a post about his “Three Simple Rules”: The Self-Care Rule: Help people do as much for themselves as they possibly can. The Guidelines Rule: Help...
by Charlie Smith | May 17, 2007
In the discussion of patient empowerment, it is worth considering how much care the patient should take on their own shoulders, and when they should turn to their doctor for help. Physicians often do more than would be required if the doctor and the patient was...
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