by Susannah Fox | Nov 30, 2010
What evidence would you bring to convince cancer researchers and policy makers to pay attention to how the internet is changing health and health care? That’s my challenge for the Dec. 14 meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel, “The Future of Cancer...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 23, 2010
What’s the point of all this technology if it doesn’t motivate behavior change? That’s what we debated almost a year ago and now I’d like to bring up the same question, but with a few more examples. If you have time, I highly recommend watching...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 22, 2010
I have seen the future of health and it’s networks (with apologies to Lincoln Steffens). Chronic disease is exploding in the U.S. The number of primary care health professionals is declining. Behavior change is difficult. But what are we going to do about it?...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 15, 2010
Update the next afternoon: be sure to read the comments, with important updates as the conversation continues. Bulletin – I just learned about this tonight: Last Friday the board of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) published a position paper...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 1, 2010
I was honored to be invited to TEDMED by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their team encouraged all attendees to complete one of three sentences: “To improve health and health care, we need to start asking…” “To...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 28, 2010
We talk a lot here about taking, owning, or reclaiming responsibility for our health and its care. If we ever update the e-patient white paper I want to include an area where we’re sometimes robbed of control at the most intimate time: death, and the months and...
by Gilles Frydman | Oct 5, 2010
I’m sure that got your attention! But that is exactly Regina’s message: We are all patients . Both collectively and individually we are the most important and the most silent stakeholder of the healthcare system. To discuss the expanding role of the patient...
by Susannah Fox | Oct 4, 2010
I’m attending a LOT of conferences this fall and over & over I am seeing the power of having patients in the room. e-Patient Connections was a wonderful and well-documented example (in blogs, on Twitter, plus the large in-person audience) as will be Health 2.0 San...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 2, 2010
Elizabeth Cohen is surely the most visible spokesperson for patient empowerment, because she’s on CNN and CNN.com. She’s got an hour-long special on CNN this weekend. Highly recommended, especially for friends and family who don’t get what this is...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 21, 2010
By Lisa Neal Gualtieri. (Her earlier much-commented post on this subject is here.) The Boston Globe reported this month on the sentencing of a former US Airways Express pilot, Stephen Sharp, “for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 20, 2010
You can’t be well empowered if you hear advice wrong. That’s why, in a participatory relationship, an essential skill is accurate handoff of information. The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making, catchily pronounced “fimdim,” has...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 15, 2010
The video of my Mayo Transform 2010 speech, The Power of Mobile, is now up on the conference site as well as on YouTube. It was an honor to be part of this event. Many thanks to David Rosenman and his team for inviting me!
by Gilles Frydman | Sep 14, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine’s Health Policy and Reform just published an opinion piece about the first public release of online report cards regarding 221 of the 1,100 US cardiac surgery programs. The authors believe that this event will fuel the debate...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 2, 2010
At last weekend’s MITSS patient safety workshop, some of us remarked out loud that it would be great to have a simple video teaching newly admitted hospital patients the importance of hand washing, and even showing them how to speak up to a staff person who...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Sep 1, 2010
A friend of mine, Ms. S., recently had an unsettling experience with a company called Caremark (the parent company of pharmacy CVS), whom she fills her prescriptions through. She was reordering a prescription refill she buys through the mail, and needed to pay for it....
by Susannah Fox | Aug 30, 2010
New concepts need gimmicks. Proven concepts do not. The phenomenon of using the internet to gather and share health information is now mainstream. It’s time to change how we talk about it, revising and maybe even retiring certain terms. Carlos Rizo and I invite...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 28, 2010
Today I’m participating in a workshop, “Engaging Minority Communities in Safer Healthcare,” organized by MITSS (Medically Induced Trauma Support Services), a Boston non-profit I’ve written about before. The current speaker is Lisa...
by Roni Zeiger | Aug 17, 2010
When you have a doctor’s appointment, and she makes some notes and later formalizes them for your medical record, would you like read them?  There’s been debate over the years about whether patients should read the notes that doctors write about them and their health...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 8, 2010
Next in our series on my experience with OpenNotes, a project sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio. This item has nothing to do with OpenNotes itself – it’s what I’m seeing now that I’ve started accessing my...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 5, 2010
Regular readers know that our founder, “Doc Tom” Ferguson, was an absolute visionary who saw that patients have a much bigger role in their own health than most people realize – at least in our culture. The white paper at top right of this site is...
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