by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2011
Noted patient activist Dale Ann Micalizzi, founder of Justin’s HOPE (blog), has just been named co-chair of the 2011 Forum of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI Forum is a major international healthcare event, with over 5,000 people attending...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 27, 2011
Again this year, as in 2009 and 2010, we’re pleased to highlight Rare Disease Day (February 28), with a post from Wendy White of Siren Interactive. Here’s last year’s prolog: One profound shift in healthcare enabled by the internet is the Web’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2011
In December we posted about practice variation and shared decision making (SDM), a field of research originated at Dartmouth decades ago and best known as publisher of the Dartmouth Atlas, which describes the amazing amount of unexplained variation in how many doctors...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 25, 2011
Last fall, at the e-Patient Connections conference, I gave a sneak preview of some survey results which are set to be have been released on the Pew Internet site on Monday, Feb. 28. I hoped to spark new ideas for a savvy, plugged-in audience and I ended up surprising...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2011
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has generously released the session video of the keynote that SPM president Dr. Danny Sands and I delivered at the IHI’s annual Forum in December. At this event the IHI did two extraordinary patient-oriented things:...
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