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Healthcare Quality Movement conference in Boston
Please read these quick posts being submitted in real time from an event today. Contains much important (to me) info on what’s going on to improve healthcare. Every e-patient advocate […]
Nexthealth: a picture worth a thousand words
Jen McCabe Gorman drew a picture at HealthCampDC on Friday that I really liked. Luckily, I found this image of her Medicine 2.0 presentation, so nobody has to decipher my […]
Participatory Medicine at NIH, part 2
The National Institutes of Health recently gathered a group of consumers and people who study them. We met off-site at a hotel in Bethesda, which I thought was an apt […]
Safety Net Populations
I recently spoke at a workshop entitled Patient Online Access in the Safety Net. (Check out these related posts.) Click image to view full size original. The organizers, Ted Eytan […]
Comarow on Quality
Avery Comarow’s blog on USNews.com is my personal find of the week. I once worked with Avery, so I know he tells it like it is, and he’s tackling an important topic. Check out his take on the CMS Hospital Compare page: Hospital Deaths Go Public.
Not Just a Pretty Picture
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published health risk data in a way that only a researcher would love (Reason.com’s Hit & Run blog links to the subscription-only charts […]
Eyeballs AND Data, Please
Jeff Howe’s blog post, “Can We Crowdsource Medical Expertise?” elicited the following comment from Daniel Reda of CureTogether.com: “Personally, just like I have batting averages, crash test ratings and historical […]
What’s in *your* MIB?
[Video at http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1418520436 is no longer available] A week ago Ted Eytan posted about a Consumer Reports Health blog post, including a video of a patient who is unable to get health insurance because of an error in...
Health System Change: Collaborative Researchers
Ha Tu and Genna Cohen of the Center for Studying Health System Change released their latest report on how Americans gather health information (HTML report; news release). I met with […]
Doctors’ Digital Footprints
Is it “disordered” behavior to Google your doctor? An article in JAMA suggests that doctors be on their guard. Please consider supporting the Society by joining us today! Thank […]
Latinos’ sources of health information
The Pew Hispanic Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report today that is required reading for anyone interested in a more nuanced picture of the e-patient population: […]
Monique tells why she doesn’t see herself as “e”
I'm delighted to present a guest post from cancer patient Monique Doyle Spencer, whose husband found the henna relief for hand-foot syndrome we mentioned yesterday. She is a stitch. To me she's about as empowered as they get, but she says she's always felt a bit cowed...
