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Eve Harris: Health coaches and involving patients in primary care decision making

by Ileana Balcu | Aug 2, 2012

Another blog post from Eve Harris on KQED describing the use of medical assistant health coaches to help patients make and keep their health care goals. http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/07/26/primary-care-efforts-to-involve-patients-in-decision-making/ Go Eve!...

Input please for ABIM Foundation Forum: Choosing Wisely in an Era of Limited Resources

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 28, 2012

What is the role of the patient? As we noted in April, TEDMED and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have designated “The Role of the Patient” as one of the twenty TEDMED Great Challenges for 2013, and the TEDMED site will host a big conversation about it...

What Do ‘Engaged’ Patients Do?

by Ileana Balcu | Jul 24, 2012

Member Eve Harris wrote another great blog post for KQED – Public Media for Northern California. It is about one woman’s personal decision on how to treat her breast cancer. A short extract below: Basila is strong evidence that individuals react...

Clarity is Power: an effective decision aid graphic (Boston Globe)

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 23, 2012

Last summer I visited Health Literacy Missouri, and summed up the great work I saw there in Clarity is Power. Today’s Boston Globe has another example – the illustration at right, what’s known as a decision aid, to help patients engage in making...

A “de-marketing strategy”

by Susannah Fox | May 31, 2012

J.R. Schmitt tipped me off to a fascinating article published in 1997 (!) about a “de-marketing strategy” for the use of general anesthesia in dentistry in the UK: De-marketing: Putting Kotler and Levy’s Ideas into Practice, by Steven Lawther, Gerard...

Technology Enables Collaborative Doctor-Patient Relationships

by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 24, 2012

SPM member and Bay Area writer Eve Harris looks at information technology’s role in promoting participatory medicine on KQED’s State of Health blog. Harris discusses tools familiar to most e-patients, but what’s really noteworthy here is the evidence...