by e-Patient Dave | Nov 29, 2008
Paul Grundy MD, of IBM, chair of PCPCC, is interviewed in the current Crain’s Benefits Outlook, a business publication about employee benefit programs. This quote alone is worth the price of admission: I can buy a damn good amputation for my diabetic, but what I...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2008
A lot of effort and study is going into improving healthcare and untangling its cost structure. So methinks it’s nearly criminal when someone blocks adoption of a treatment that’s better, especially when it’s also less expensive. Case in point, from...
by Gilles Frydman | Nov 12, 2008
Information Silo:Â An information silo is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems… “Information silo” is a pejorative expression that is useful for describing the absence of operational reciprocity....
by Susannah Fox | Nov 11, 2008
The California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference was so packed with great panels that I needed help choosing my targets. Here is the first in a series of posts about this event. Spreading Improvement: After the Innovators/Early Adopters...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Nov 10, 2008
Ruth Given has written a paper entitled, MD Rating Websites: Current State of the Space and Future Prospects (PDF), that was recently published on THCB. It’s a 39-page informal analysis (with an emphasis placed on informal) that takes a fairly good and...
by Gilles Frydman | Nov 3, 2008
Everybody can say this simple French word. Ludique Definition:Â (adj) related to games, playful, recreational Could it be what’s missing from many of the health & wellness Health 2.0 applications I have seen so far? Why would that be important? Last I wrote...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 3, 2008
I will be heading to San Francisco this week to attend the Chronic Disease Care conference sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation. Registration is closed but I promise to take notes on as many panels as possible. Please help me choose from the smorgasbord...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 27, 2008
This post is prompted by a horrid subject: how do we as a society deal with one of the worst possible events – a death in our healthcare system? The immediate topic is a 37 year old woman who died last week at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). An article...
by Alan Greene | Oct 26, 2008
Thomas Jefferson had a radical notion: When the people are well-informed, they can be trusted to govern themselves. This powerful idea worked to end our rule by the King, but at the time it didn’t apply to slaves; it didn’t apply to women. It STILL...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 24, 2008
What do we think of THIS?? An op-ed piece in the NY Times:Billy Beane, GM of the Oakland Athletics, suggests using baseball-style number-crunching to improve healthcare, with Newt Gingrich and John Kerry co-authoring the piece. Some snips: “Remarkably, a doctor...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 19, 2008
Here’s an unpleasant aspect of patient empowerment: we need to be aware that sometimes our providers will heap treatments on us that aren’t necessary – and, sometimes, treatments we’ve specifically said we don’t want. Paul Grundy MD,...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 19, 2008
John Grohol initially posted this in our “Found on the Net” sidebar, but I clicked through, and I think it’s important enough that it belongs as a main post. (Short doesn’t imply sidebar.) I’m particularly drawn to “equal rights...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 16, 2008
As an empowered patient I’m willing to go to the ends of the earth to help the medical community get beyond the famed “culture of blame,” so everyone involved can learn from errors. Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had a wrong site...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 11, 2008
Ted Eytan has a post by this name. It’s a question asked of him by Ann Barber, MD. I couldn’t be happier! His post and the comments have gotten lively. I posted about Chapter 2 of e-Patients: how they can help us heal health care, which includes the seven...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 15, 2008
Jen McCabe Gorman drew a picture at HealthCampDC on Friday that I really liked. Luckily, I found this image of her Medicine 2.0 presentation, so nobody has to decipher my sketch. Click image to view full size original. The one difference is that, on Friday, Jen...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 28, 2008
Medpedia has gotten a lot of publicity in the past week. Considering that Wikipedia has disavowed* usefulness for patients, Medpedia sounds like a potentially great idea. * See Jon’s correction in Comments. –EPD But when I saw their home page it literally...
by Dan Hoch | Jul 16, 2008
Professional medical societies are not quite like the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University, but they may well look that way to many patients. In most cases, their sole reason for being is to serve their members in a pretty narrowly defined way. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2008
Click images to view full size originals. Last weekend I stumbled across the “attic” of Tom Ferguson MD, who was the “George Washington of patient empowerment,” as CNN put it this month, citing his work since 1975 to create a world of freedom...
by Alan Greene | Jul 8, 2008
Our dear friend, our brother, our hero, the inimitable Doc Tom, died on Good Friday 2006. Even though his untimely death came as a shock, Tom Ferguson had already far outlived the projections at the time of his Myeloma diagnosis over 15 years before. July 8 is Tom’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 3, 2008
Today’s entry in the CNN.com “Empowered Patient” series, by medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, is titled Empowered heroes’ hard lessons now help others:This week, as we reflect on American heroes, we’re saluting a few “patient...
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