by Gilles Frydman | Oct 15, 2008
“Crowdsourcing: the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” Jeff Howe Or in other words Participatory Outsourcing. There is clearly...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 11, 2008
This blog is a project of the Society for Participatory Medicine. To contact us: Blog team: blog at participatorymedicine.org Society for Participatory Medicine: info at participatorymedicine.org Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM.org):...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 18, 2008
e-Patient Dave joined this group in March 2008 thanks to an introduction by Danny Sands, MD, his primary care physician. Dave quickly established himself as the number one fan of the “white paper,” which we had edited and published after Tom...
by Gilles Frydman | Jun 16, 2008
When Google Health was launched, a few weeks ago, all the onus was put on the privacy issue. So much so that we may have lost focus on other issues that are of real importance to the future of e-Patients (that means you and me and everybody else you know!). For...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 22, 2008
Because he or she is afraid — afraid of being overwhelmed by one more responsibility, of not being reimbursed for time spent answering emails, of patient privacy, of HIPAA, and of course, of legal liability if they set an expectation of replying to emails in a...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 8, 2008
As I talk to people about participatory medicine and the e-patient principles, often the first belief to transform is that it’s inherently risky to “do your own googling” and inherently safer to just trust “the system” (or “your...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 15, 2008
There’s been a lot of talk about Scott Haig’s November article in Time, When the Patient is a Googler: Alan Greene wrote on this blog; it was a hot topic on the NY Times “Well” blog; and Susannah Fox said: I’d love to hear what people...
by Gilles Frydman | Mar 14, 2008
I am sick & tired of the advice given to people looking for medical information on the internet. All the content evaluation guidelines say the same. Look for sponsorship, currency, factual information and audience. A recent CNN Empowered Patient entry states...
by Susannah Fox | Mar 12, 2008
Bowing to popular demand (OK, one person) I uploaded a PDF of the 2001 press release from the American Medical Association which suggested that Americans make a New Year’s resolution to “trust your physician, not a chat room” since the information found online puts...
by Cheryl Greene | Mar 4, 2008
The Health 2.0 Conference in San Diego, CA (March 4, 2008) was a buzz with ideas of innovation and connectivity. Matthew Holt and Indu Subalya, MD managed to cram more presentations into one day than most conferences do in two days. The almost-overwhelming day was...
by Charlie Smith | Oct 11, 2007
Joe Shapiro’s piece on patients turning to the internet was well done and interesting. Our thanks to Susannah Fox for her contribution to this article, and for her work on the survey about patients with chronic condititions who use the internet. I particularly...
by Susannah Fox | Jun 14, 2007
I just rediscovered Daily Kaizen, a health care provider blog that maintains an e-patients perspective. I think Ted Eytan, one of the blog’s authors, lives in the future, so I’m always curious to see what he’s up to. – Susannah Fox...
by Susannah Fox | May 17, 2007
Since keeping track of your own health records is part of the e-patient responsibilities described by Charlie Smith in today’s post, I thought I’d point out a study sent to me by Lorenzo Moreno, an analyst at Mathematica Policy Research. His team conducted...
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