by e-Patient Dave | Aug 8, 2010
Next in our series on my experience with OpenNotes, a project sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. This item has nothing to do with OpenNotes itself – it’s what I’m seeing now that I’ve started accessing my...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 7, 2010
Last night I got word of an unexpected treat: an hour-long conversation between some real experts about participatory medicine. It’s on Andrew Schorr’s Patient Power site – he and his team are powerhouses as well, and they produced a special...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 5, 2010
Regular readers know that our founder, “Doc Tom” Ferguson, was an absolute visionary who saw that patients have a much bigger role in their own health than most people realize – at least in our culture. The white paper at top right of this site is...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2010
Next in our “Why I Joined” series is Victor Montori, MD of the Mayo Clinic. My wife and I met him in May; he’s high energy, with boundless optimism. And as you’ll see, he feels very strongly about patients being at the center of healthcare. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 2, 2010
Two posts have brought into wrenching relief one of the more difficult topics I’ve encountered in healthcare: the challenge of understanding diagnosis, especially when difficult pathology is involved. It started with When a biopsy cannot completely rule out...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 20, 2010
Gary Wolf of Wired has posted a whizbang write-up that came out of a whirlwind one-hour 12-way Skype chat about personal health data. Sound frenetic? It was. (I participated. It was, well, 12-way.) I can’t imagine how to model what happened, except to say that...
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