by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2010
Patient networks for the win! MIT Technology Review: “Earlier this month, the journal Lancet Neurology published a study showing that the generic drug lithium did nothing to slow the course of ALS … Eighteen months earlier, PatientsLikeMe, a for-profit...
by e-Patient Dave | May 17, 2010
Thanks to the extraordinary Dutch e-patient / expert patient Lodewijk Bos (Twitter), president of ICMCC, I discovered this classic that I didn’t know existed. Our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson died 8 months later so I never knew him, but this piece...
by e-Patient Dave | May 16, 2010
The front page of Friday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune has coverage of the keynote address I was privileged to deliver on May 5 at the 13th Annual Colloquium of ICSI (Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement) and IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement). The...
by e-Patient Dave | May 10, 2010
The new definition of participatory medicine at the Society’s website notes that patients “shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and … providers encourage and value them as full partners.” As with any...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 28, 2010
The e-Caremanagement blog has released my post that we mentioned last week: “Gimme my damn data!” The stage is being set to enable patient-driven disruptive innovation. It’s part 5 of their excellent series (really, excellent) “Is HITECH working?” As...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 25, 2010
Actor Dennis Quaid has produced an outstanding, informative, empowering and motivating CME* program, “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.” It’s on the Discovery Channel. Part 1 is here. This is the best-produced material I’ve seen...
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