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Society’s ICSI keynote makes front page of Star-Tribune

The front page of Friday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune has  coverage of the keynote address I was privileged to deliver on May 5 at the 13th Annual Colloquium of ICSI (Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement) and IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement). The...

Joe Kvedar’s “cHealth blog” (Connected Health)

We’re long overdue in welcoming Joe Kvedar MD of Partners Healthcare to the blogosphere. From his About page: “The term “connected health” reflects the range of opportunities for technology-enabled care programs and the potential for new strategies in...

Health 2.0 Europe: A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway wrote that Paris is a moveable feast, not fixed in time or place. I think that describes great gatherings of any kind, including great conferences, which begin before the first speaker takes the stage and don’t end simply because the...

Health Data is Useful… if it Informs Conversations

Dr. Roni Zeiger, MD is currently Chief Health Strategist at Google where he has helped create and lead Google Health.  He continues to see patients on occasional evenings and weekends at a local urgent care center.  Roni earned his MD at Stanford and completed his...

Chronic Disease in Data and Narrative

For the past 5 months I have been immersed in data and narrative about chronic disease. The result, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” is a report sponsored by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. We find that living with a...

Librarians and ePatients as Partners

I am thrilled to bring another guest post, this time from Luke Rosenberger, a medical librarian who has forcefully embraced social media & participatory medicine, as you’ll see. Libraries & librarians have always held a special place in helping other...

NPSF’s magnificent Universal Patient Compact

Updated 3/12/2014 with new links at bottom. One of my personal pleasures in the first year of the Society for Participatory Medicine has been discovering people in other parts of the “patient culture” who’ve been doing wonderful, empowering,...

Is Your Healthcare Practice Patient-centered?

Yesterday I was at a monthly TelePresence meeting of the Person Centered Health initiative, a group that started in Canada that’s closely aligned with the Society for Participatory Medicine. At this meeting, some expressed concern that the memes of...

Are consumers at the bottom of the evidence pyramid?

We’re pleased to present another guest post by Amy Romano, which first appeared on the phenomenal maternity blog Science and Sensibility. See also her newest post, last night, here – including a terrific BlogTalkRadio interview in which she expresses...

Unleash the Hot Talent: A Letter from a Patient

This is a guest post from Christine Kraft, Twitter friend @ChristineKraft. She’s a pensive, musey blogger at CocoVillage, and “wicked smaht,” as we say in Boston. She’s also the one who introduced us to Regina Holliday last year. She recognizes...

Access is (almost) everything

Or: Why health geeks should pay attention to internet access geeks. The Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Project and Internet Project just released an in-depth look at internet penetration across racial and ethnic categories in the U.S.: Latinos Online, 2006-2008...

Terrorized By The ‘War On Cancer’

How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America’s Ability To Make Sound Healthcare Decisions with apologies to Zbigniew Brzezinski In his original article about the war on terror Brzezinski argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a...

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