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MIT Media Lab’s Health & Wellness 2012: ten day innovation fest, six us-centered projects

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2012

Updated 9:38pm ET – fixed many broken links :-/ I’m spending today (ONLY today, unfortunately) at the MIT Media Lab’s third annual Health & Wellness Innovation event. It’s a two week competition – six teams pursuing some terrific...

A physician who really understands patient-centered care

by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 29, 2011

The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published “The Patient Will See You Now,” a thought-provoking and rather moving narrative by John Krueger, MD. In telling his own story of becoming and maturing as a physician, the author persuasively argues...

Two great posts on how patients can be responsible for their care

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 21, 2011

In the Society for Participatory Medicine we talk about patients shifting “from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health.” Two posts Tuesday from SPM members provide some great specifics. First, orthopedist @HJLuks published Your Role...

Alert: Lawrence Weed, father of the Problem Oriented Medical Record, looks ahead

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2011

The excellent ICMCC daily newsletter just alerted me to this item from Permanente Journal: Interview with Lawrence Weed, MD — The Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record Looks Ahead. I hope to absorb it in the next day or two, and I invite people who know...

Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes en Español

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011

To read this post in English, click here. Hacía tiempo que teníamos en mente la posibilidad de llevar a cabo la traducción del Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes al Español, ya que con más de 420 millones de hispanoparlantes en todo el planeta, nuestro idioma es ya la...

Announcing: the e-Patient White Paper, in Spanish

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s here! From the English “e-Patients: How they can help us heal health care,” you can now click to download the Spanish e-Pacientes: cómo nos pueden ayudar a mejorar la salud. To read this post in Spanish,...