by e-Patient Dave | Mar 4, 2010
Empowered patients know they’re responsible for their choice of care providers. We usually follow our clinicians’ advice, but we take responsibility for it. That’s hard when a quality agency obscures its findings. So I object to a reality reported...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 20, 2010
I wrote last Wednesday about some background material for a panel I’ll be attending Thursday, as part of the government’s process to encourage adoption of electronic medical records. In the current administration all such discussions are wide open to the...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2010
We often talk here about empowered patients’ struggles to get – or even create – the care they need. Usually we’re talking about it in a medical sense. But as far too many people know, sometimes there are other obstacles. Laurie Todd is, to me,...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 1, 2010
Re Time’s article “Group Therapy” in the February 8, 2010 issue, arriving on newsstands now: Time’s freelance reporter Bonnie Rochman contacted our Susannah Fox to discuss her remarks at the Institute of Medicine last October. In hours of...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 16, 2010
This is a guest post by Lucien Engelen (Dutch Twitter friend @Zorg20), who was featured in October’s The internet is changing healthcare – video from Reshape09. Here, he takes it to the next step, moving from health 2.0 to “health 2.010”. I love it!...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 6, 2010
The following is the proposal I submitted Tuesday, to speak at O’Reilly / TechWeb’s Government 2.0 Expo, May 25–27 in Washington. ______________________________ The Invisible Stakeholder: Why America Needs a Patient-in-Chief “These are exciting and...
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