by e-Patient Dave | Dec 29, 2014 |
Our movement seems to be entering a turning point, and today Paul Levy’s blog had a great example. The change is embodied by the 2015 theme of our e-patient conference buddies at Medicine X: “This is the year of doing.” In my view this means two...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2014 |
Long-time readers will recall a hallway conversation I had at a conference in 2011 with Silke von Esenwein PhD of Emory University’s Center for Behavioral Health Policy Studies, who was presenting a poster with preliminary results of a study in process. The post...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 25, 2014 |
Here’s a new “must read” for people with a grim prognosis, submitted by Twitter friend @Scanman (Vijay Sadasivam), from the Tamil region of India: How Long Have I Got Left?, by Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. Seven years ago that was my...
by David Harlow | May 20, 2013 |
Going public recently with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 (a gene linked to breast cancer) via an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie is clearly trying to get the message out that radical choices must...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2012 |
The PDF at right is a summary of sample data from this new dataset. The Leapfrog Group is a highly respected patient safety organization. They’ve earned a reputation for carefully and thoughtfully assessing providers’ actual performance in quality and...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 1, 2012 |
Next in our series of posts by SPM members on their experience at last weekend’s PCORI workshop. See Monday’s introductory post. I recently met (face to face) Danny van Leeuwen, one of the newer members of our society. He’s a sensitive, caring...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 22, 2012 |
TEDMED last April was a big time for our Society. Many members were there, especially our artist-in-residence Regina Holliday and videographer Ross Martin, who collected the footage for his now-famous Gimme My DaM Data video. And, as we reported here, The Role of the...
by e-Patient Dave | May 24, 2012 |
From SPM member Keith Boone, author of the e-Patient Rap, whose first verse I did in my TEDx Maastricht talk: My daughter did something interesting a couple of weeks ago when we went to her pediatrician’s office. We asked for her records, and she told the clerk...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 7, 2012 |
One of the principal areas to be understood and developed as we expand participatory medicine is decision making. As patients become “responsible drivers of their care, and providers welcome and value them as full partners,” patients participate in...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 20, 2012 |
This is longer than it might be, because this point is essential. If this subject is familiar to you, skip to the heading “Today’s update.” As we said in December, an e-patient essential is sorting out what writings to trust, whether we find them...
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