by e-Patient Dave | Feb 18, 2013
This is the big update to our preview post last November. There’s a stage in a movement where it starts to get serious media coverage, and ours is coming of age. We’ve documented the progress: 2009: Susannah Fox was on NPR’s Morning...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 10, 2012
Edited a few minutes after the original post. Over on the Harvard Business Review blog a post yesterday is stirring up discussion. I hope well-informed SPM members can help shed some light in the comments there, citing as many specifics as you can. (As I compiled the...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 22, 2011
Corrections 8:45 pm ET Monday 10/24: This post’s title originally said HHS was seeking patients. Actually it’s PCORI, a new non-government agency, as described below. Both affect the future of healthcare, but PCORI isn’t part of HHS. The title also...
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 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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