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Health 2.010: New Year, New Era

by | Jan 16, 2010

This is a guest post by Lucien Engelen (Dutch Twitter friend @Zorg20), who was featured in October’s The internet is changing healthcare – video from Reshape09. Here, he takes it to the next step, moving from health 2.0 to “health 2.010”.  I love it!...

Health data rights on CNN

by | Jan 14, 2010

Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, captured the zeitgeist of the health data rights movement in today’s must-read article, Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’. An e-patients all-star team is quoted in the story: Jen McCabe,...

My Father’s Medical Record Fiasco

by | Jan 2, 2010

Guest post by Alan Viars (@Aviars), CEO of Videntity Systems, Inc. This past year my father required open heart surgery. This is a short article about the hurdles we (his family) encountered along the way. I’ve changed the names, because it is not my intention to...

What’s in your… bucket queue?

by | Dec 31, 2009

Prolog: Cheryl said she wasn’t sure whether this post belonged on the e-patient blog. It sure does: When lives are prolonged by medical success, we get to do all kinds of things we wouldn’t have. It also belongs here because this short little piece...

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