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Anniversary of a health data earthquake

Four years ago this week, e-Patient Dave published, “Imagine someone had been managing your data, and then you looked,” and forever changed the national conversation about health data. I have described that post as an earthquake — a surprise to those...
Guidelines for e-Patients.net Bloggers

Guidelines for e-Patients.net Bloggers

If any of this is unclear, write to blog@participatorymedicine.org. Thank you for blogging for e-patients.net! Check the Calendar in the e-Patients.net Dashboard to see what else is in the queue before you decide to post on a given day. Featured posts (ie, ones other...

What if health care…?

For over a year I’ve been the accidental manager of a community garden. All I did — I swear — is point out an open plot of land and people started pitching in, planting, asking friends to join them. All of a sudden we’d transformed a bare patch...

The Case for Being On Top of Your Case

Guest post by Elaine Waples, one of our new (today) members of SPM (with her husband Brian Klepper). This story illustrates one of the core dysfunctions in American medicine today – lack of coordination – and makes a compelling case for patients and...

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