e-Patients Blog
The blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Want to be a contributor?
What can you do while you’re sitting in the doctor’s office waiting room?
The new iPhone tool — Symptom Navigator (http://iphone.adam.com) created by A.D.A.M. is a free new mobile health content tool for iPhone & iTouch.
Two Research Papers Published on PatientsLikeMe
Two research papers were published this month on the Health 2.0 website, PatientsLikeMe. PatientsLikeMe is arguably the only “real” health social network online today, because it lets patients share actual […]
What patients really want
What patients really want: an introduction to the e-patient” cites our own Dr. Danny Sands in his video editorial on Medscape. Please consider supporting the Society by joining us […]
Health Commons
Bringing healthcare solutions R&D into the 21st century: “the drug discovery process is broken,” how do we fix it? Science Commons suggests the creation of a Health Commons. The problem […]
Google Releases Google Health
Google Health launched this week to the public. It is pretty much what everyone anticipated — an online electronic record that people can maintain if they wanted to. Highlights include […]
Consumers talk back to CNN’s Empowered Patient
For several informative empowered patient stories, see the Comments at bottom of this post. CNN’s Empowered Patient column, by medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, contains good, if not groundbreaking, advice, plus […]
The Plausible Promise of Participatory Medicine
I think participatory medicine is what Eric Raymond calls a “plausible promise”: something big enough to inspire interest yet achievable enough to inspire confidence. Reforming health care is too big […]
Patient Activism
If you have doubts about the impact of social media on health care, please read this 2005 post on The Health Care Blog about a grandmother’s campaign on behalf of […]
Electronic Medical Records No Panacea
If you didn’t hear, lots and lots of people snooped into celebrities’ medical records in L.A. — the number of people who’ve been caught just at the UCLA Medical Center […]
Um, let’s start by just being polite
Maybe it’s just me, but this one’s a little astounding. According to Paul Levy’s blog, a Perspectives column in the New England Journal of Medicine “suggests that doctors enhance their […]
Randy Pausch, empowered patient / participatory medicine
Chapter 12 of Randy Pausch’s best-selling book The Last Lecture opens with a classic anecdote of what it looks like when an empowered patient practices participatory medicine with an equally […]
Consumers? Wha?
Update 5/19: Wonderful news! Today I was invited to represent the consumer perspective at this event! Kudos and thanks – I intend to add real value. Investors and disrupters to […]
