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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...
Mayo Clinic Scholarship Contest for e-Patients
This post originally appeared at http://socialmedia.mayoclinic.org/2012/06/20/2012-patient-caregiver-scholarship-contest-for-social-media-summit/. The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is offering an opportunity for patient advocates to attend its Social Media...
Bowling Alone, Healing Together
One year ago, I read a JAMA commentary that was so good I had to stand up while I was reading it: Are Patients Knights, Knaves, or Pawns? I blogged about it here (touching off a heated discussion) and started an email correspondence with one of the authors, Sachin...
ONC discusses giving data to patients – more on the Blue Button initiative
Lygeia Ricciardi from ONC with a discussion about giving patients access to their data and a call for patients to volunteer in ONC's worksgroups http://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/electronic-health-and-medical-records/making-patient-access-health-information-reality/...
A patient story: HIMSS’ Adam Bazer on IT from a patient’s perspective
From the HIMSS Blog, Adam Bazer with a personal health story where even in a great hospitals the IT is not as connected as can be. We wish your son Ari well, Adam! http://blog.himss.org/2012/06/25/healthcare-it-from-the-view-of-a-worried-father/ The link inside the...
Patient engagement of the financial kind: “Getting Lost in the Labyrinth of Medical Bills” (NYTimes)
In our Society for Participatory Medicine we define this new approach to medicine as ...a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to active drivers of their care, and providers encourage and value them as full partners. An article in...
Checklists for children hospital stays
Member Elisabeth Bailey published a few articles on the Dr Greene website. Her recent book, The Patient's Checklist, got great reviews and is a great workbook for anyone having any medical procedure in a hospital. In the Dr Greene articles, Elisabeth is explaining...
2012 Patient, Caregiver Scholarship Contest for Social Media Summit
Thanks to David Harlow for the heads-up to a contest for scholarships for patients to attend Mayo Clinic's Social Media Summit: Excerpt: The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is offering an opportunity for patient advocates to attend its Social Media Summit and...
Marya Zilberberg elaborates on structured vs. nonstructured clinical data
Thanks to member Marya Zilberberg for recounting and elaborating on the list serve discussion about what's best to use for clinical data: structured or unstructured data: http://evimedgroup.blogspot.com/2012/06/unstructured-medical-record-another.html
An Empowered Patient Faces Serious Chronic Disease: How a Strategy of Remaining “Level-Headed” Worked for One Woman
Do you have the ideal healthcare network of individuals supporting your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects? Sally Richards does. She works with hospitals, neurofibromatosis (NF) organizations, government entities and patients in what she calls “a...
Writer seeks examples of physician conflict of interest that affected care
Our Doc John" Grohol received this inquiry along from a writer who's doing a story about physician conflicts of interest and patient care. If this is of interest to you, please contact the writer directly. Thank you! ____________ I'm writing an article for Neurology...
Writer seeks examples of physician conflict of interest that affected care
Our Doc John" Grohol received this inquiry along from a writer who's doing a story about physician conflicts of interest and patient care. If this is of interest to you, please contact the writer directly. Thank you! ____________ I'm writing an article for Neurology...
