by Gilles Frydman | Jun 25, 2008
Today, June 25, 2008 the Markle Foundation’s Connecting for Health Initiative, a public-private collaborative group engaging more than 100 organizations representing all major components of the health sector, released a new framework to increase health end-users...
by Gilles Frydman | Jun 17, 2008
Starting in the mid 90s a new paradigm of medicine was born ― first as a grassroots movement and then rapidly evolving into a phenomenon of great interest to public health professionals who started early to study its potential impact on the healthcare system. This...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 9, 2008
In February 2007 the Washington DC PBS station, WETA, produced a pilot program for a series called “Healthcare 360,” produced by George Mason University and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The pilot is about “Health IT and how it...
by Susannah Fox | May 15, 2008
I think participatory medicine is what Eric Raymond calls a “plausible promise”: something big enough to inspire interest yet achievable enough to inspire confidence. Reforming health care is too big for most people to grasp; creating spaces for participatory medicine...
by e-Patient Dave | May 6, 2008
e-Patients, alert! Time to participate in creating the lexicon. Ted Eytan MD is open to suggestions on his definition of Health 2.0 – he’ll be giving a talk soon and wouldn’t mind some honing, particularly shortening. Here’s the current...
by Susannah Fox | May 5, 2008
I’ll be in Boston tomorrow for a World Congress Leadership Summit. The organizers certainly use all the right key words to describe the event; I’m kind of hoping the presenters get to wear purple robes or something to match the superlatives. The next...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 15, 2008
Dr. Robert Wachter has an interesting essay over at THCB entitled, Should Patient Satisfaction Scores Be Adjusted for Where Patients Shop? As health care in the U.S. continues to move in the direction of tailoring itself to patient satisfaction, the question becomes...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 13, 2008
I haven’t backtracked to the original article this editorial cites. In my view, it looks like big evidence of the impact of FFS (fee for service). Quality Care at Bargain Prices [Among] the top five teaching hospitals … UCLA was the most extravagant,...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 18, 2008
Corrected 3/23/08: The hospital does have online patient records, though they don’t include CT/MRI or mammogram results. See link and details below. This one strikes close to home, landing a year after removal of my own cancerous kidney … plus, a year...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 15, 2008
There’s been a lot of talk about Scott Haig’s November article in Time, When the Patient is a Googler: Alan Greene wrote on this blog; it was a hot topic on the NY Times “Well” blog; and Susannah Fox said: I’d love to hear what people...
by Cheryl Greene | Mar 4, 2008
The Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego, CA (March 4, 2008) was a buzz with ideas of innovation and connectivity. Matthew Holt and Indu Subalya, MD managed to cram more presentations into one day than most conferences do in two days. The almost-overwhelming day was...
by Cheryl Greene | Jan 28, 2008
And welcome to “the movement” (his term not ours :-) I love the transformation of your Blog from Patient Dave to e-Patient Dave and want to quote it here for our readers. “… this looks to me like the Sixties motto “power to the people,” made real in the...
by Cheryl Greene | Jan 19, 2008
Join the e-Patient Scholars for a conversation on The WELL. Here’s a great quote: “When the Internet industry is booming and investors are interested, we start focusing too much on the technology, because there are so many new technologies hoping to attract users and...
by Cheryl Greene | Jan 6, 2008
For years Doc Tom urged us to facilitate patients’ publicly rating doctors as a way to accelerate e-pateints movement. Alan (DrGreene) was excited about this, even though he was a physician, but I was afraid it would open Pandora’s box. In the winter of...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 14, 2007
I had the pleasure of being a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation yesterday, along with Dr. Scott Haig and Dr. Ted Eytan, to talk about “Do-It-Yourself Diagnosis on the Web.” (For a substantive summary of the show, check out Josh Seidman’s...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 8, 2007
Recently, Microsoft Corporation announced the launch of Health Vault, a new, free service that allows anyone who needs an individual’s health information to view it online. While this is a great idea and is sorely needed to reduce health care costs and reduce...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jun 29, 2007
Michael Moore has decided to do something a little different with the recent release of his documentary detailing some of the ills, as he sees them, of America’s healthcare system. He has encouraged individuals to upload their own healthcare horror stories to...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 28, 2007
The Pew Internet Project has found that the internet has a significant impact on some life decisions (which school to attend, for example), but it does not play a big role in other “major life moments.” Is there something similar in health care? Are there...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jun 12, 2007
If you go to enough conferences and industry events, it can sometimes be a bit of an echo chamber, especially if they are things like “Web 2.0” conferences — a bunch of people who pretty much believe the same thing. There’s little dissension...
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