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Patients first. Doctors second.

by | Apr 30, 2009

An Op-Ed piece at the healthcare blog, written by 2 MDs from Harvard Medical School is pretty clear! For those of us who believe the time has come for participatory medicine, the following quote is particularly interesting: Empowering patients should be the first step...

Health 2.0 meets Ix: The Rise of the Patient Voices

by | Apr 29, 2009

I have been following with real interest the notes and discussions about the Health 2.0/Ix conference that took place in Boston last week. I am not willing to get involved in this discussion because in some ways I think it missed the most important aspect of the...

An e-Patient is Born: Elyse Chapman’s story

by | Apr 26, 2009

One of the key learnings of my first year as a student of the e-patient movement, studying how healthcare is evolving, is this: People get radicalized when it gets personal. This is one such story: it’s the e-patient awakening of a long-time personal friend of...

Completing my list of billing code errors

by | Apr 19, 2009

This post will complete (I hope!) the list of errors that I discovered in the billing data that forms part of my medical records. The original post is here. As I said in the the previous post, “Let me make clear, I personally have only one agenda: to empower, equip...

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