by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2013
It’s less common today but people used to think empowered patients were anti-doctor. One part of our response on this blog was to point out the many clinicians who are e-patients themselves, as in Let’s hear it for the d-patient e-patients (with dozens of...
by David Harlow | Jan 14, 2013
The Health IT Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT released its proposed Stage 3 objectives for Meaningful Use. Â “Eligible Providers” that meet these objectives share in the federal electronic health record incentive...
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 24, 2012
In the Society for Participatory Medicine we talk about professionals and patients being full partners in care. And sometimes, as in any partnership, the two part. Have you ever “fired” anyone? Before it got to that point, did you express your concern...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2012
Most of our readers are familiar with the brief animated video introduced last summer by ONC, the health IT group in the US government. (If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it below, in long and short versions.) Now they’ve introduced a new poster (click...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 3, 2012
Warning: this doesn’t end well. Not for anyone in the story. Unless it changes you, as it did me. Jonathan Welch, MD, teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices in the ER at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. But, as is often the case in life, the...
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