by Alicia Staley | Aug 25, 2013
SPM member Erin Moore (@EKeeleyMoore) is one heck of an activist parent. She sees the future, she has a stake in it – a kid with a chronic disease – and like many of us, she’s not waiting around for someone else to make it happen: she’s engaged...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 6, 2013
One of the most-quoted eye-opening quotes in “Doc Tom” Ferguson’s e-Patient White Paper is this: As Donald Lindberg, director of the National Library of Medicine, explains, “If I read and memorized two medical journal articles every night, by the end...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 19, 2013
Susannah: On June 14, 2013, I attended the National Meeting on Promoting and Sustaining Collaborative Networks in Pediatrics where we discussed topics covered in a special issue of Pediatrics, among other initiatives and trends. Justin Vandergrift was one of the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 13, 2013
In medicine, to achieve the best you need the best information. So an essential question is, who gets to say what’s best? That question took a sharp turn this week with the news that Medpedia is dead. Medical librarian Laika Spoetnik has a strong post on the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 17, 2013
Last year during TEDMED 2012, in “The cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine”: Ben Goldacre on the missing data, we covered the vitally important news that a lot of medical research has gone missing, leading to a severely corrupted foundation for evidence-based...
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