by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2010
Josh Seidman, Director of Meaningful Use, sent this. It’s for a two year full time job in DC, possibly extendable. No relocation costs will be paid – you’re on yer own. :–) From what I hear, talking to people working in HHS these days, “full...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Prolific, unsinkable Maggie Mahar commented today on the Century Foundation’s HealthBeat blog about Paul Levy’s “Yes, Patients Can Help Their Doctors” introduction to my forthcoming book. Among other things she pointed out, correctly, that not...
by e-Patient Dave | May 26, 2010
As many of you know, a hard part of being in the world of cancer fighters is that sometimes we lose one. I’m sad to report the passing on April 23 of Judy Feder, who shared her powerful e-patient story here just a year ago. Please re-read how, through her...
by e-Patient Dave | May 22, 2010
Meet Donna Cryer – another person who was an e-patient before she ever heard the word. (Weren’t we all?) As with Diane Engelman’s “mama lion” story this week, we connected with Donna through the internet. I heard her speak last month at...
by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2010
Patient networks for the win! MIT Technology Review: “Earlier this month, the journal Lancet Neurology published a study showing that the generic drug lithium did nothing to slow the course of ALS … Eighteen months earlier, PatientsLikeMe, a for-profit...
by e-Patient Dave | May 17, 2010
Thanks to the extraordinary Dutch e-patient / expert patient Lodewijk Bos (Twitter), president of ICMCC, I discovered this classic that I didn’t know existed. Our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson died 8 months later so I never knew him, but this piece...
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