e-Patients Blog
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What would a checklist for patients look like?
This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It's Atul Gawande's fault, for his book "Checklists." :-) Forward-thinking clinicians are doing it; participatory patients should to. Let's get to work. Checklists in hospitals can dramatically reduce...
Second wave of comments on Health IT safety issues
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...
Patient Stories on Health Web Sites Can Not Always Be Trusted
Guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine. Lisa teaches Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication. A social media user herself, Lisa...
Is Your Healthcare Practice Patient-centered?
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 “person-centered...
Calling All Physicians: Support the Participatory Medicine Movement
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...
Are consumers at the bottom of the evidence pyramid?
We're pleased to present another guest post by Amy Romano, which first appeared on the phenomenal maternity blog Science and Sensibility. See also her newest post, last night, here - including a terrific BlogTalkRadio interview in which she expresses herself on the...
Patient to doctor: “Why aren’t you harder on me?”
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 relationship. And...
VA data glitch mimics MIT’s
Bob Brewin writes today in NextGov that the VA discovered a glitch in a system interface that could display the wrong patient's information under peak load circumstances. The VA handled it in an exemplary fashion: they immediately issued a safety alert and shut down...
Healthcare journalists point out difficulty of using Joint Commission’s hospital quality site
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 IÂ object to a reality reported this week by AHCJ,...
All Together Now: The Internet Does Not Replace Health Professionals
The March 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes a letter from Brad Hesse, Richard Moser, and Lila Rutten, three National Cancer Institute researchers whose work is a continual inspiration to me. Their analysis of data from the Health Information...
Designing for Better Health
This is a banner week for people who think good design contributes to better health. On Monday, DiabetesMine and the California HealthCare Foundation launched the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge. Last year the contest garnered more than 150 entries and awarded a...
E-Patient Erin Proves a Point
Erin Turner recently wrote: When I arrived at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota a few weeks ago, I was asked: "Who referred you to us?" My answer was not traditional: "Twitter." (Read her full story on the SpectrumScience blog. And take that, 2.0 doubters!)
