by e-Patient Dave | Jan 26, 2012
Edits made in the discussion at bottom, 1/27. Quick post from the media table at today’s Medicare Innovation Summit: Deservedly famed surgeon & author Atul Gawande just put together a bunch of thoughts into a potent summary. Paraphrasing from memory: There...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 24, 2012
Another potent guest post by SPM member Alexandra Albin, @MsAxolotl. If this doesn’t give you a sense of who is “the ultimate stakeholder” in health matters, nothing will. Remember, “patient” is not a third person word. Your time will...
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. Â It’s a two week competition – six teams pursuing some terrific...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 12, 2012
Quick note as I run to the airport – Last May we reported on a study in process at Emory University about whether a “safety-net” (poor) population would engage with a personal health record. The preliminary results in that poster showed that what...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 10, 2012
Edited a few minutes after the original post. Over on the Harvard Business Review blog a post yesterday is stirring up discussion. I hope well-informed SPM members can help shed some light in the comments there, citing as many specifics as you can. (As I compiled the...
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...
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