by Susannah Fox | Dec 8, 2011
Here’s a question which inspired me today, received via email from Christie Silbajoris, director of NC Health Info: My library is rethinking its provision of services to the public. We’ve got a history of going beyond what the average academic health sciences...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 7, 2011
As often happens, a Susannah Fox post has led to lingering questions. This time I’ve figured out what I want to say.:-) Last week, in a side note on her World AIDS Day post, she inserted this: … Let’s review the basic math of health services delivery in...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 1, 2011
Mark Senak’s post, “World AIDS Day: The Past Cannot Be the Future,” inspired me to write an epic comment about different perspectives on illness and care delivery, so I adapted and expanded it to share here: I recently read Susan Sontag’s two...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 30, 2011
We’ve often cited Gary Schwitzer’s Health News Review (@HealthNewsRevu on Twitter)Â as an invaluable e-patient resource. With a structured ten point evaluation process, the site’s many trained reviewers evaluate the reporting of health news. We...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 28, 2011
The excellent ICMCC daily newsletter just alerted me to this item from Permanente Journal:Â Interview with Lawrence Weed, MD —Â The Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record Looks Ahead. I hope to absorb it in the next day or two, and I invite people who know...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 27, 2011
Cross-posted from my own site. Last night a dear and inspiring friend breathed her last. Monique Doyle Spencer, metastatic breast cancer patient, died at home as she wished. All knew the end was near. A couple of weeks ago she happily attended her daughter’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 22, 2011
As in 2009 and 2010, this year too we donate our top post at Thanksgiving to the Engage With Grace movement, encouraging people to participate in this very important discussion, at the time of year when we’re most likely to be together with families. Because it...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Nov 21, 2011
Guest blogger Ken Spriggs talks about how he made sense of his medical data by creating a graphic electronic health record, the DIYEHR. [Update 11/25: the data visualization that Ken created is so extraordinary that we’re adding it here, four days after the...
by Roni Zeiger | Nov 16, 2011
This post and 5 minute video were published on ABC News yesterday and I want to share them with this community as well. Three months ago, at the age of 40, I had a small bleed in my brain. My story is no more special than any of your stories, but I learned something...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011
To read this post in English, click here. HacÃa tiempo que tenÃamos en mente la posibilidad de llevar a cabo la traducción del Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes al Español, ya que con más de 420 millones de hispanoparlantes en todo el planeta, nuestro idioma es ya la...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 10, 2011
La esperábamos hacÃa tiempo y por fin ya está aquÃ: la edición española del famoso “Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes” del Dr. Tom Ferguson: “e-Pacientes: cómo nos pueden ayudar a mejorar la salud.” Haga clic en la imagen de...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 2, 2011
Science seeks certainty. The problem in medicine is, the body is complex and our knowledge is incomplete. People who want certainty – physicians or patients – are kidding themselves. And if we expect docs to be perfect, it’s a setup for dysfunction....
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 27, 2011
We’ve sometimes written about doctors as e-patients. (There are a lot!) Here’s the next. SPM member Howard Luks MD, orthopedist, had some symptoms. He spoke to his physician and GI doc, who gave him pills. It didn’t make sense to him. So he did what...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Oct 23, 2011
The 60 minutes interview with Steve Jobs’ biographer is an intriguing piece that gives us a few insights into Steve Jobs and his battle with pancreatic cancer. But the most disturbing part of the interview for me was watching Walter Isaacson, a former editor of...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 20, 2011
It’s wise to make healthy things fun, and even wiser to make them social (as touted by SPM member Phil Baumann RN’s Health Is Social). This week at the Mayo Center for Social Media, guru Lee Aase (@LeeAase) introduced a program that does both: a catchy...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 5, 2011
We’ve often said here that when an e-patient wants to be responsible for treatment decisions, it’s essential to know how to evaluate the research about each option. A common mistake is to trust, blindly, news reports about a treatment, or even to trust,...
by Susannah Fox | Oct 4, 2011
We are deep into the fall conference season. One of my favorite trends is the increasing rate of inclusion of patients and caregivers at health care events, on stage or in the audience. The California HealthCare Foundation was a pioneer in this regard. Patients 2.0,...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 29, 2011
Yesterday the New York Times reported that some health insurers have applied to regulatory agencies to push premiums sharply higher – usually double-digit increases, while citizens are suffering.  This falls on top of the 11 year history reported last year by...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 25, 2011
Guest blogger Beth Austin shares her professional and personal advice on choosing the right doctor. She is the principal of Crescendo Consulting Group. I’ve spent a lot of time in my professional life knee-deep in articles on healthcare quality and medical...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 18, 2011
Tessa Richards, assistant editor at the British Medical Journal, has posted a well reasoned commentary on the BMJ site, “Enlist the patients’ help.” I’m no expert on the UN’s work here but what we seem to be seeing is, once again,...
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