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Going Viral Against HIV and STIs

The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, in partnership with AIDS.gov, held a one-day forum on social media, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (STI) that turned out to be an unfiltered discussion of love, truth, and technology. Why was it so...

Day 1 of TEDMED: Charity Tillemann-Dick, e-patient

Update Jan. 18: the video has just been released – see it at the bottom of this post. TEDMED is a truly extraordinary conference in San Diego, a fall sibling of TED talks focused on medicine. TED talks are just 18 minutes long, chosen and designed to blow your...

Twitter: filter, suggestion box, idea machine, window

On Friday I dashed off this tweet: PhD student just asked me which journals I read to stay up to date on health + tech. My answer: Twitter. It was classic RT bait and indeed it was echoed dozens of times by fellow Twitter geeks — more than any other tweet...

Participatory Medicine Grand Rounds

This is e-Patients.net’s first opportunity to host Grand Rounds, which is a collection of some of the medical blogosphere’s best writing over the last week. We asked bloggers to look at our sister website, the peer-reviewed Journal of Participatory...

A Troubled Trifecta: Peer Review, Academia & Tenure

We welcome Peter Frishauf as an author on our blog. Peter is on the Editorial Board [brief bio] of our Society’s Journal of Participatory Medicine, and as described below, has already authored some important material on this subject. His first post here is...

We’re quoted in PBS Newshour online

Our Susannah Fox (and her research) are quoted in a piece yesterday on PBS Newshour’s online  edition about the HealthCare.gov insurance research site. There’s also a small quote from me.  

Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine

Update: The NLM released new widgets on July 14, along with a redesigned MedlinePlus site. (Read @eagledawg’s take on these new tools, as well as her response to this post.) Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like...

Patient Communities… at Walgreens?

In May, I spoke at the Chronic Care and Prevention Congress about my most recent report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet.” I talked about the social life of health information and the internet’s power to connect people with information and with...

Health 2.0 DC: Passion and Execution at Scale

I think conferences are deeply affected by the spirit of their host city.  San Francisco has its hackers and dreamers, Boston has its entrepreneurs and ivy, Paris has its pomp and worldliness. At Health 2.0 DC yesterday, my city showed that it has passion and...

The Decision Tree: How Better Health Can Scale

“The internet was created to connect people and groups. The first step is to share stories. The next step is to share quantitative observations.” “Health care has been locked up in regulatory amber. HIPAA was passed in 1996, almost perfectly timed to...

Health 2.0 Europe: A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway wrote that Paris is a moveable feast, not fixed in time or place. I think that describes great gatherings of any kind, including great conferences, which begin before the first speaker takes the stage and don’t end simply because the...

What would a checklist for patients look like?

This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It’s Atul Gawande’s fault, for his book “Checklists.” :-) Forward-thinking clinicians are doing it; participatory patients should to.  Let’s get to work. Checklists in hospitals can...

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