by Kathleen O'Malley | Nov 9, 2011
Guest blogger Nancy Finn reports on the popularity of health apps. She is the author of e-Patients Live Longer. The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a national telephone survey of 2,277 adults in May 2011 and found that 83% own some kind of cell...
by David Harlow | Sep 30, 2011
On September 14, HHS released for comment draft lab results regulations that will, if finalized, effectively bathe the Achilles’ heel of health data in the River Styx of ¡data liberación! Lab results will be made available to patients, just like all other...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 23, 2011
I was honored to give the closing keynote at the Medicine 2.0’11 Congress at Stanford. In preparation for it, I gathered all of the Pew Internet Project’s recent research on social networks, smartphones, and health communications. Then I added stories from...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 2, 2011
Nancy Finn submitted this guest post about the challenges facing doctors and patients who want to have clinical conversations online. The quest for the right communication formula and balance that will satisfy doctors and e-patients who want to experience continuous...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 17, 2011
I’m visiting yesterday and today with some marvelous kindred spirits: Health Literacy Missouri (Twitter @HealthLitMo, Facebook). Their thoughts are very aligned with participatory medicine. It’s like we’ve been ships in the night – not crossing...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 1, 2011
Update: My notes are now online: Mind the Gap: Peer-to-peer HealthCare. The newest material is in the section entitled, “Getting Past the Early-Adopter Stage” — roadblocks, opportunities, and beacons for change (patient leaders, clinician leaders,...
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