by Susannah Fox | Aug 18, 2009
Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help. That’s my summary of presentations from last week’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media conference, where I had the sense,...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 23, 2009
Guest post by Kent Bottles, M.D., President of ICSI. Preface: The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement is a Minnesota-based non-profit that “brings together diverse groups to transform the health care system so that it delivers patient-centered and...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 20, 2009
Neither health professionals nor patients can do it alone. Let’s make no mistake: We are here to participate and to help! e-Patient Dave original story of the health data transfer from his hospital EHR to Google Health PHR is remarkable in many ways and shows...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2009
Healthcare is complex. Worse, our healthcare delivery systems are immensely complex. Sometimes things go wrong. The long and difficult story below was submitted to me by a stalwart former member of my kidney cancer group on ACOR.org. I’m reproducing it here with...
by Gilles Frydman | Nov 12, 2008
Information Silo:Â An information silo is a management system incapable of reciprocal operation with other, related management systems… “Information silo” is a pejorative expression that is useful for describing the absence of operational reciprocity....
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