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What makes a doctor-patient partnership flourish?
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...
First Electronic Health Record exchange in MA @stales
Member Alicia Staley on the HIT Community (MA HI Community) blog with a great recount of the first EHR exchange in Massachusetts - it happened last week: https://www.thehitcommunity.org/2012/10/16596/
#s4pm Tweetchat tonight Oct 17 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT about… hashtags
Hash-Day on Tweet Chat at #s4pm on Weds, 10/17 In honor of Social Media Week (at Mayo in MN; #mayoragan) and with a nod to @hjluks (of the @Symplur hashtag project) our #s4pm chat theme this week will be about #hcsm and the topic is: "How Do You Like To...
New series on overdiagnosis
We've long written here about Health News Review, the terrifically empowering and educational news-dissection service started by Gary Schwitzer and now involving numerous writers. Health News Review was modeled after a similar service in Australia started by Ray...
Monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine
This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn. Here's how to become a Society member, individual or corporate. Our publications: This blog...
Hugo in the San Francisco Examiner – in a *non-medical* column
I've often said that we won't really be making a dent until our conversations show up in the popular culture - outside health and technology circles. Well, I just spotted a great example: yesterday Janet Gallin, host of the San Francisco talk show Love Letters...
Fact checking at Medicine X
(A cross-post from susannahfox.com) I had the great honor of being part of the first Medicine X conference at Stanford University last weekend. I presented a sneak preview of new survey results collected by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare...
What Bryant and Katie saw, while Doc Tom was seeing the future
We've often written here about what a visionary our movement's founder "Doc Tom" Ferguson was. As the medical editor of The Whole Earth Catalog and publisher of the magazine and book Medical Self-Care , he saw the role of the patient and family in healthcare. And when...
OpenNotes: The results are in. GREAT news for patient engagement.
Regular readers know that we've long anticipated the result of the OpenNotes project. Our first post about it was in June 2010: “OpenNotes” project begins: what happens when patients can see the physician’s visit notes? It tied the issue all the way back to the...
Crossing a threshold: the e-Patient movement enters wave 2
I'll be blunt here: three years ago, late 2009, when I gave my first keynote speech ever, many observers said "Well Dave, that's fine for you, but you're the only one." I replied: if I'm the only one, there's nothing to talk about. And they were wrong: the e-patient...
Health Affairs: An Evidence-Based Approach To Communicating Health Care Evidence To Patients
This blogpost by Chuck Alston and Patrick McCabe originally appeared on the Health Affairs blog. Many thanks to SPM member Michael Millenson for alerting e-Patients.net to this piece. It has been 22 years since David M. Eddy -- the heart surgeon turned mathematician...
Marya Zilberberg: ACOG’s dysmenorrhea FAQs: Evidence of propaganda?
Guest blogger Marya Zilberberg is the author of Between the Lines: Finding the Truth in Medical Literature. She originally posted this piece on her blog Healthcare, etc. I have been looking up information on endometriosis for a friend of mine, and came upon this from...