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Second wave of comments on Health IT safety issues

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 16, 2010

Last month I posted the testimony I submitted to the Adoption/Certification Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee. (I urge interested parties to review the links to other resources in that post.) Today Paul Egerman, chair of that team, circulated a preliminary...

Is Your Healthcare Practice Patient-centered?

by Danny Sands, MD | Mar 12, 2010

Yesterday I was at a monthly TelePresence meeting of the Person Centered Health initiative, a group that started in Canada that’s closely aligned with the Society for Participatory Medicine. At this meeting, some expressed concern that the memes of...

Calling All Physicians: Support the Participatory Medicine Movement

by Danny Sands, MD | Mar 10, 2010

Participatory Medicine is a new paradigm in healthcare, one that promises to enhance healthcare efficiency, transform the experience for both the patient and their providers, and improve healthcare outcomes. This cultural shift requires adaptation among healthcare...

Patient to doctor: “Why aren’t you harder on me?”

by Danny Sands, MD | Mar 8, 2010

A joint post by e-Patient Dave and Dr. Danny Sands, written from alternating points of view. Danny: An important moment happened a few months ago during office hours – important because it brought a profound shift in Dave’s view of the doctor-patient...

Healthcare journalists point out difficulty of using Joint Commission’s hospital quality site

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 4, 2010

Empowered patients know they’re responsible for their choice of care providers. We usually follow our clinicians’ advice, but we take responsibility for it. That’s hard when a quality agency obscures its findings. So I object to a reality reported...

What do YOU want from the Society for Participatory Medicine?

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 26, 2010

We (the people on our banner graphic) are at the annual e-patients.net retreat – which, this year, is the board meeting of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Whether or not you’re a member yet (join here), we want to know: what do YOU want the...