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Patient Voices at CHCF’s Chronic Disease Care Conference
This is the second in a series of posts about the California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference (the first was Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks). Patient Voices: Managing Chronic Conditions, Living our Lives Ted Eytan snapped a photo that captured...
Women and Health Care Disparities: Who Dies and Who Profits?
Are women dying of cancer in the same way they die of heart disease, because physicians trivialize their complaints and they are powerless to get second opinions? How many decades has it taken for cardiologists, practitioners at the apex of medicine, to acknowledge...
Malpractice cost impact
Your perspectives please? On my own blog a somewhat surprising discussion has started about the cost impact of malpractice issues, as part of the total American healthcare budget. I cited some Congressional Budget Office data and some newcomers have shown up. I'd very...
In the Spin II: You and Your Billing Code
Pass the Valium! Previously on e-Patients.net I recounted the crazy-making quest for a second opinion on an abnormal mammogram (microcalicifications) as per the advice of New York Times health columnist Jane E. Brody, a breast cancer survivor. Â The gynecologist who...
NIH Summit on Health Disparities
NIH is sponsoring a summit this week, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. I heard about it from Mary Brophy Marcus's article in USA Today and I found this press release online, but I haven't seen other coverage of the event. If you spot stories about the...
NeuroTalk Parkinson’s Group Brings About Change at Michael J. Fox Foundation
Our savvy e-patients over at NeuroTalk noticed the launch of a new service by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, one of the leading Parkinson's disease advocacy and research organizations. The new service, called PD Online Research, is billed as a "new web community of...
Breaking News at Hematology Meeting – for Patients
Andrew Schorr is the founder of Patient Power, LLC, and shares this dispatch, his second for e-patients.net: I had a whirlwind weekend at the Moscone Center in San Francisco where I broadcast five and a half hours of live interviews with leading hematologists and...
Personalized Medicine, the Next Frontier
Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care. This is her second guest post on e-patients.net: When an individual patient visits his or her doctor with a problem, traditional clinical diagnosis is made...
Saving Lives, Old-School Style
What if there was a simple, old-school style procedure that could save tens of thousands of lives every year? Better yet, what if it could be implemented at minuscule costs (about $3 million to rollout nationwide), and would require very little change in anyone's...
Virtual Participatory Medicine Town Meeting
On Friday Senator Tom Daschle announced a campaign to get input from the public about what healthcare reform should look like. "The Transition will host Health Care Community Discussions across the Country over the holidays this December to help his Policy Team put...
Internet diagnoses: Trust them or toss them?
This guest post is an article written by Lisa Neal Gualtieri, published in her local paper. It's an example of widening distribution of principles and practices documented in the e-patient white paper. I'm grateful to Lisa for sharing these true stories of patients...
New Health Journalism Blog
The Association of Health Care Journalists has launched a new blog called Covering Health and it's well worth adding to your blogroll.
