e-Patients Blog
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Flashback to 2001
Bowing to popular demand (OK, one person) I uploaded a PDF of the 2001 press release from the American Medical Association which suggested that Americans make a New Year’s resolution to “trust your physician, not a chat room” since the information found online puts...
Patient 2.0
Check out this interview with Matthew Zachary, founder of ImTooYoungForThis (cancer resources for GenX and GenY). Please consider supporting the Society by joining us today! Thank you. Susannah FoxSusannah […]
Susannah Fox at Health 2.0
Video of e-Patients group member Susanna Fox at Health 2.0. Susannah speaking: Interview: Please consider supporting the Society by joining us today! Thank you.
Recruit doctors. Let e-patients lead. Go mobile.
The Health 2.0 conference was an opportunity to learn about an amazing array of emerging technologies and, for me, to connect them to a bigger vision of what’s happened and […]
“Succeeding in online health” lunch meeting
Today outside Boston I attended a “lunch-n-learn” session of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, titled “Patient, Heal Thyself: How to Succeed with Online Consumer Health Sites.” At first I thought […]
e-Patients Lead The Way at Health 2.0 Conference
The Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego, CA (March 4, 2008) was a buzz with ideas of innovation and connectivity. Matthew Holt and Indu Subalya, MD managed to cram more […]
Empathy via email
There is already an established literature on doctor-patient email, but there is always room for one more journal article, right? Especially one which reveals (to me, for the first time) […]
Degrees of Access
As of December 2007, 75% of American adults use the internet, 75% own a cell phone, and 54% have a high-speed internet connection at home (download charts here). Seniors, those […]
Friends, Family & Post-surgical Outcomes
An article in this week’s Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that “patients with larger social networks showed better outcomes than patients with small or nonexistent social networks.” […]
The Players in the PHR Space
Want to know who wants to be your next personal health record (PHR) provider? Check out this great run down of the current players in the PHR market, along with […]
Technology as a means, not an end
I was part of a brainstorming session yesterday about the role of technology in health and health care, in preparation for a June 2008 Ix conference here in DC. Here […]
Go online. Not too much. Mostly…?
Michael Pollan’s answer to diet angst is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Is there an equivalent maxim for information angst? If not, does someone out there want […]
