by e-Patient Dave | Nov 8, 2012
During a conversation with a friend last week I had a hare-brained thought – not rare, as friends know, but this one was thought-provoking. So, patients and providers and everyone else, let’s talk about this: If diagnosis magically became automated –...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 1, 2012
Regular readers know that we’ve long anticipated the result of the OpenNotes project. Our first post about it was in June 2010: “OpenNotes” project begins: what happens when patients can see the physician’s visit notes? It tied the issue all the way back to...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 16, 2012
My schedule only allowed me to attend Day One of the fantastically rich Medicine 2.0 Congress being held this weekend in Boston. I thought I’d share my impressions and notes in case they spark inspiration for other people, as each presenter and hallway...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 30, 2012
Yes, “Regina” – you know who I mean.:-) You know someone’s a star in the firmament when they gain first-name status. (Especially in healthcare, where “the other Regina” happens to be Surgeon General!) As we reported here in June,...
by Ileana Balcu | Aug 2, 2012
Another blog post from Eve Harris on KQED describing the use of medical assistant health coaches to help patients make and keep their health care goals. http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/07/26/primary-care-efforts-to-involve-patients-in-decision-making/ Go Eve!...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 28, 2012
What is the role of the patient? As we noted in April, TEDMED and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have designated “The Role of the Patient” as one of the twenty TEDMED Great Challenges for 2013, and the TEDMED site will host a big conversation about it...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 26, 2012
One year ago, I read a JAMA commentary that was so good I had to stand up while I was reading it: Are Patients Knights, Knaves, or Pawns? I blogged about it here (touching off a heated discussion) and started an email correspondence with one of the authors, Sachin...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 20, 2012
Do you have the ideal healthcare network of individuals supporting your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects? Sally Richards does. She works with hospitals, neurofibromatosis (NF) organizations, government entities and patients in what she calls “a...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 16, 2012
Thanks to SPM co-founder Joe Graedon of PeoplesPharmacy.com for this note about today’s special section in the Wall Street Journal on healthcare innovation. (Some of the content requires a subscription, but you can register for 8 weeks free.) Joe’s note,...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 24, 2012
In the latest post in our Why I Joined SPM series, guest blogger Dr. Nabin Sapkota shares his story of discovering that patients like to be taught what’s going on, and how this replaced what he’d lost when he gave up doing teaching rounds. Every “why...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 16, 2012
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published “An Introduction to Self-Care,” a personal narrative by psychiatrist Sana Johnson-Quijada. Inspired by a positive family experience with collaborative care, the author was emboldened to modify her...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2012
This was originally posted on my own site. Social media response has said the examples of dialog help people envision how they can express things with their providers. There’s a new ending, at bottom. There’s nothing here that will be a surprise to any...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 12, 2012
It’s funny how things turn out sometimes. Lately I’ve written a lot here about e-patients taking an active role at a new level in healthcare, not just engaging in their care, but actually defining what it should be. Well, wouldn’t you know it, life...
by Susannah Fox | Jan 19, 2012
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project, presented this wonderful overview of the Project’s health findings at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, CA, on January 12. The Rise of the e-Patient View more presentations from Pew Research...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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