e-Patients Blog
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E-patients and Health 2.0
In an alternate universe, there’s a world exploring the innovations of Web 2.0 in healthcare more generally (and, from my eyes, with a little less focus on the individual person […]
Wikipedia as an e-patient source
Read this quote and think about which industry is being admonished: “We cannot, however, continue to reject Wikipedia because we aren’t comfortable with the wiki process itself… To be quite […]
E-Patients And The Participatory Internet- Part I
The participatory Internet will be an ideal platform for e-Patients that will have a dramatic impact on how health care is provided.
e-Patients Don’t Fit Stereotypes!
If doctors think about e-patients at all, they may imagine that they are Web-savvy young or middle-aged people. Assertive baby boomers waving pages of print-outs from the Internet send shivers […]
Health Search
Bill Tancer is the general manager of global research at Hitwise and writes a column for Time.com called “Science of Search.” His recent column on “Restless Leg, Mumps and Other […]
My Idea of Great: Health Data Geeks Convention
I was lucky enough to be invited to a “Data Users Conference” sponsored by the Health Information National Trends Survey/National Cancer Institute, which really should have been called Health Data […]
Personal Health Records
Since keeping track of your own health records is part of the e-patient responsibilities described by Charlie Smith in today’s post, I thought I’d point out a study sent to […]
How Far Should Patients Go in Self Management
In the discussion of patient empowerment, it is worth considering how much care the patient should take on their own shoulders, and when they should turn to their doctor for […]
Dr. Tom and the E Patient Revolution
In this first post, I’d like to address the “e Patient world” and what you may expect to see develop in this area in the future. E Patients are those […]
New e-Patient Reporting Tool
A new web site called “Who Is Sick” (conveniently located at www.whoissick.org) allows people to report their symptoms (cough, fever, nausea, etc.) to be logged in real time. The service […]
Are E-files Spurring an E-shortage?
Gilles Frydman points us to this story from The Boston Globe today that illustrates one of the downsides to this push to electronic medical records — people who know how […]
Patient-Driven Content at MedShelf.org
Online support groups have long been recognized as an important and unique source of medical information and social support for patients. Derek Hansen, Paul Resnick, and Sean Munson at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, are trying to help online support groups create community repositories using wiki software at http://medshelf.org.
