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Sneak peek: MyHospitalIdea.com – consumer-driven improvement
Later this month something's coming that I have a suspicion will be wonderful. Carlos Rizo of Toronto's Health Strategy Innovation Cell tipped me off to this October 20 webcast: The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and the Health Strategy Innovation Cell are pleased...
Regina Holliday is not special!
I’m sure that got your attention! But that is exactly Regina's message: We are all patients . Both collectively and individually we are the most important and the most silent stakeholder of the healthcare system. To discuss the expanding role of the patient please...
The presence of patients changes public conversations about health care
I’m attending a LOT of conferences this fall and over & over I am seeing the power of having patients in the room. e-Patient Connections was a wonderful and well-documented example (in blogs, on Twitter, plus the large in-person audience) as will be Health 2.0 San...
“Empowered Patient” special on CNN
Elizabeth Cohen is surely the most visible spokesperson for patient empowerment, because she's on CNN and CNN.com. She's got an hour-long special on CNN this weekend. Highly recommended, especially for friends and family who don't get what this is all about. The first...
Readers Digest: “Doctors confess their fatal mistakes”
My mom shot me a note today about this cover story in the new Reader's Digest. Unhappy reading but good patient education. Cites some familiar names, e.g. Peter Pronovost and Robert Wachter. It's good to see "wake up" messages in the mass media, as with Elizabeth...
e-Patient Connections 2010
Kevin Kruse and his team have put together another incredible event in Philadelphia: e-Patient Connections 2010. Follow the tweets by searching for #epatcon or read the excellent summaries being written in real-time by Leigh Householder and Seth Quillin on the blog...
“Another Devastating Diagnosis”: JoPM Editor Jessie Gruman undergoes surgery for a fourth cancer
Jessie Gruman, PhD, Co-Editor-in-Chief of our Journal of Participatory Medicine, underwent surgery today in New York to address the fourth cancer-related diagnosis of her life. Today she released a blog post about it. Jessie has been a natural choice to co-lead our...
What is the ROI on love?
Last week's Mayo Transform symposium was a two-day excursion into the world of science, data, design, and the secret ingredient to health: love. Patch Adams, MD, kicked things off in grand style. If you've never seen him speak, treat yourself to a hit of his energy:...
Article: The Rise of the Empowered Patient
Pathways, a Scientific American magazine, has a long new article The Rise of the Empowered Patient. It quotes, among others, our friend Lucien Engelen (@Zorg20, which is Dutch for Health 2.0). I'm starting an all day meeting so I can't absorb yet - please discuss!
What can surgeons learn from patients?
I'm going to be on a panel at the American College of Surgeons 96th Annual Clinical Congress on October 5 in Washington, DC. The session title is pretty provocative: To Tweet or Become Extinct?: Why Surgeons Need to Understand Social Networking and my part of it uses...
Journal of Participatory Medicine Releases New Content
The Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM), the online peer-reviewed, open access publication of the Society for Participatory Medicine, has released new content for its 2010 volume. The journal's mission is to transform the culture of medicine from a delivery...
Truth is stranger than fiction – and deceptive websites are all too plentiful
By Lisa Neal Gualtieri. (Her earlier much-commented post on this subject is here.) The Boston Globe reported this month on the sentencing of a former US Airways Express pilot, Stephen Sharp, "for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was '100...
