health care Archives - Page 8 of 15

Jessie Christine Gruman, 1953-2014

by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2014

I’m saddened (really saddened, as I write this) to report that one of the titans of our movement, Jessie Gruman, died unexpectedly yesterday at home in New York. She had long been sick, but the demise was sudden. In addition to the mountain of work she produced...

Keeping Patients in the Dark: SIIPC14

by Casey Quinlan | Jul 2, 2014

Several SPM members were in attendance at the recent SIIPC14 conference at Dartmouth, where the ongoing work on healthcare system transformation has been the source of much great content on e-patients.net over the years. Casey Quinlan – yes, yours truly...

Of half gods and mortals: Aesculapian authority

by Marge Benham-Hutchins | Jun 17, 2014

Written in collaboration with Linda Trietler, MSN, RN – PhD student. Review of Kalisch, B. J. (1975). Of half-gods and mortals: Aesculapian authority. Nursing Outlook, 23(1), 22-28. As we work to develop a collaborative and patient centered health care system...

A Farewell to Richard Rockefeller, e-Health Visionary

by Michael Millenson | Jun 16, 2014

The founders of SPM were saddened this weekend to learn of the death, in a private plane crash, of Richard Rockefeller, longtime friend of “Doc Tom” Ferguson. Rockefeller was credited in Ferguson’s white paper as “a White Paper Advisor.”...

The Iceberg Waiting for Your Health Care Data

by David Harlow | May 1, 2014

The Heartbleed web security exploit was first publicized several weeks ago. In the time since then, numerous web-based services have let their users know (some more clearly than others) whether and how their data security was compromised by this OpenSSL flaw that has...