by e-Patient Dave | Nov 15, 2010
Update the next afternoon: be sure to read the comments, with important updates as the conversation continues. Bulletin – I just learned about this tonight: Last Friday the board of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) published a position paper...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 13, 2010
John Moore of Chilmark Research has another great post, this time on the realities being discovered about PHR use among the urban poor – something most observers considered unlikely. It’s aptly titled Smashing Myths & Assumptions: PHR for Urban...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 12, 2010
Last week, the morning after the mid-term elections, the Disruptive Women in Health Care blog co-hosted an event at the National Press Club to discuss the election’s impact on health reform. They’ve just posted the video of the first hour’s panel,...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 11, 2010
Previous title: “Morgan Stanley, April 2010: Mobile will be bigger than desktop. Discuss, re health.” Thanks to @Rohal and others for tweeting about a talk on internet* trends Tuesday by Mary Meeker of investment banker Morgan Stanley, at their Future of...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 23, 2010
Guest post by Erin Macartney (Twitter) of Palo Alto Medical Foundation. We would welcome similar posts from providers (or anyone else) who’s illustrating what we advocate in the Society for Participatory Medicine: truly patient-centered care, in which...
by Susannah Fox | Oct 18, 2010
On Friday I dashed off this tweet: PhD student just asked me which journals I read to stay up to date on health + tech. My answer: Twitter. It was classic RT bait and indeed it was echoed dozens of times by fellow Twitter geeks — more than any other tweet...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 2, 2010
Elizabeth Cohen is surely the most visible spokesperson for patient empowerment, because she’s on CNN and CNN.com. She’s got an hour-long special on CNN this weekend. Highly recommended, especially for friends and family who don’t get what this is...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 17, 2010
One of the essential enablers of participatory medicine is that the internet brings patients together with information and with each other. Sometimes those connections seem improbable, such as when an acute cancer patient finds much in common with patients who have a...
by Gilles Frydman | Sep 14, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine’s Health Policy and Reform just published an opinion piece about the first public release of online report cards regarding 221 of the 1,100 US cardiac surgery programs. The authors believe that this event will fuel the debate...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 13, 2010
Prepared for Mayo Transform 2010: Thinking Differently About Health Care (video now available). Ten years ago, I wrote the Pew Internet Project’s first report on the impact of the internet on health care, calling it “The Online Health Care Revolution.” Back then, the...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 2, 2010
At last weekend’s MITSS patient safety workshop, some of us remarked out loud that it would be great to have a simple video teaching newly admitted hospital patients the importance of hand washing, and even showing them how to speak up to a staff person who...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 30, 2010
New concepts need gimmicks. Proven concepts do not. The phenomenon of using the internet to gather and share health information is now mainstream. It’s time to change how we talk about it, revising and maybe even retiring certain terms. Carlos Rizo and I invite...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 12, 2010
Next in our series of posts about our founder Doc Tom. Previous time capsules: 1980 and 1985. Come, ye economics buffs and algebra fans; get out your pencils and solve for x, n, and XX: Whatever else the year 19XX is remembered for, it will — without a doubt — go down...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 10, 2010
Last Friday we dug up our founder Doc Tom’s Seven Laws of Self-Care, from 1985. At one time Tom served as medical editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Woodstock-era empowerment resource whose subtitle was “Access to Tools.” At left (click to...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2010
Our Susannah Fox (and her research) are quoted in a piece yesterday on PBS Newshour’s online edition about the HealthCare.gov insurance research site. There’s also a small quote from me.
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 26, 2010
A majority of consumers’ buying decisions are influenced by social networks, according to a new study from research firm Gartner, says ReadWriteWeb. Three types of key influencers (20% of users) are heeded by 74% of all consumers. We’d like to see this...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2010
Josh Seidman, Director of Meaningful Use, sent this. It’s for a two year full time job in DC, possibly extendable. No relocation costs will be paid – you’re on yer own. :–) From what I hear, talking to people working in HHS these days, “full...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 15, 2010
Joe Kvedar asks an excellent question in his post, The Next Phase of Connected Health: Connected Personalized Health: What are the best variables to consider when taking connected health programs from pilot to scale? He imagines a matrix with three axes: severity of...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 13, 2010
Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg’s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 7, 2010
Prolific, unsinkable Maggie Mahar commented today on the Century Foundation’s HealthBeat blog about Paul Levy’s “Yes, Patients Can Help Their Doctors” introduction to my forthcoming book. Among other things she pointed out, correctly, that not...
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