by e-Patient Dave | Mar 20, 2017 |
Please cite this post as “by Dave deBronkart, Marilyn Mann and Peter Elias MD” or, on Twitter, “@ePatientDave, @MarilynMann & @PHEski.” Our blog software only allows listing one author but they provided 2/3 of the content. The medical news...
by Michael Millenson | Jun 3, 2016 |
On social media and at meetings like Health Datapalooza, our favorite federal bureaucrats assure us of their commitment to open data and patient empowerment. But those are just soothing words; federal regulations are law. On April 30, I posted on e-patients.net an...
by Ileana Balcu | Sep 15, 2015 |
This is a guest post by our member Mary Beth Schoening. Mary Beth is co-founder of Behavioral Health Innovators, Inc. an organization combining the power of human compassion with technology, advanced research and best practices from industry to encourage healthy...
by Ileana Balcu | Sep 8, 2015 |
To all in the Washington/Baltimore/northern Virginia area (and elsewhere if you care to travel!): The patient committee of the Society for Improved Diagnosis in Medicine would like to invite you to our second annual Patient Summit on Diagnosis. The summit is part of...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 10, 2015 |
A new article in the BMJ this week reports on a good, clever evaluation of 29 online symptom checkers, showing that some have a clue and some don’t. I love it; in my view the bottom line is “Some are better than nothing, none is near perfect, and some are...
by David Harlow | Jun 27, 2015 |
I recently hosted a Google Hangout on Air entitled Patient Reviews of Physicians: The Wisdom of the Crowd? (presented by The Harlow Group LLC in association with The Society for Participatory Medicine). I spoke with Niam Yaraghi (Center for Technology Innovation, The...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 7, 2014 |
Regular readers may recall SPM member Zack Berger MD PhD’s July post here The pledge of the patient-centered physician. Zack is one of the many SPM members attending the Stanford Medicine X conference this weekend and sends this Saturday night report,...
by Marilyn Mann | Aug 8, 2014 |
The American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes has announced a new Patient or Caregiver Viewpoint section in the journal. Viewpoints will be authored by patients or their caregivers and will discuss the patient’s...
by Marilyn Mann | Jul 28, 2014 |
Preface by e-Patient Dave: We have often written here (see posts) about Shared Decision Making, in which patients are engaged in choosing among treatment options. A key method is to give patients a “decision aid” (DA) – a document or video that...
by Marge Benham-Hutchins | Jun 17, 2014 |
Written in collaboration with Linda Trietler, MSN, RN – PhD student. Review of Kalisch, B. J. (1975). Of half-gods and mortals: Aesculapian authority. Nursing Outlook, 23(1), 22-28. As we work to develop a collaborative and patient centered health care system...
What My 90-Year-Old Mom Taught Me About the Future of AI In Health Care (WBUR)June 21, 2017
RIP: Larry Weed, MD the creator of the Problem-Oriented Medical RecordJune 19, 2017
“Amenable mortality”: how well 195 countries deliver existing cures (or don’t, so you die)June 13, 2017
SPM member & husband try to get care from one of the “best systems in the world.” #Fails.June 9, 2017
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