e-Patients Blog
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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 […]
Harnessing Openness
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, non-partisan research organization with a trustee list dominated by corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with that — my own funders, […]
More 2.0 Definitions
Susannah once again posted a series of cool/very useful links! And I know we should keep on providing definitions for all the “Health 2.0” applications we are talking about. So, […]
Consumer Resources
As we continue our discussion of the definitions of 2.0 and user-generated content (UGC), I thought I’d highlight some other buzzwords and link to a few consumer-oriented resources. I still […]
Women Healthcare Executives & e-Patients
e-Patients Scholar, Cheryl Greene presented the e-Patient perspective to women healthcare leaders at X2HN. Her talk titled, Making the Most of Health 2.0, was presented at their annual meeting in […]
Wikis: Cautionary Tale 2.0
Everybody is talking about social networks, collective intelligence, wisdom of crowds, smartmobs, User Generated Content and other “2.0” terms. It almost sounds like the only recipe to create the next […]
It’s Not Just about Healthcare…
All this talk about Health 2.0/ Web 2.0 and the wisdom of crowds has got me noticing things I probably would not have noticed before. For that reason I am […]
Medscape Editorial
Check out this video editorial by Dr. Danny Sands entitled “ePatients: Engaging Patients in Their Own Care.” (Note: sign-up is free for site access.) Please consider supporting the Society […]
