healthcare Archives - Page 12 of 14

Count the e-patient takeaways: “What I learned going down an emergency slide”

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 7, 2014

Susannah Fox, long one of our most popular and prolific bloggers, is roaming to wider audiences these days. She’s entrepreneur-in-residence at Robert Wood Johnson, she has her own site, and she’s just started writing on the hip-hip site Medium.com....

Inaugural Emerging Leader Award from CCFA- DC Chapter for Carly Medosch

by Ileana Balcu | Nov 4, 2014

Society for Participatory Medicine member Carly Medosch and her mother Mary Jo have run the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America’s Fredericksburg, VA support group for the past 6 years. Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are two forms of...

What has happened to the Personal Health Record?

by Nancy Finn | Oct 27, 2014

By Nancy B. Finn There has been so much discussion online and in the press about electronic health records and physicians sharing EHR data with patients via such tools as OpenNotes and Blue Button, that the personal health record (PHR) has been lost in the dialogue....

WSJ: “Researchers are asking patients to help design clinical trials.”

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 14, 2014

I could smack myself for not noticing this earlier, but it happened while I was at the ESMO conference (the “European ASCO” cancer conference) in Madrid last month: Amy Dockser Marcus has another great piece on how medicine is truly starting to engage with...

Aging & e-Patients: Challenges and Opportunities in Geriatrics

by e-Patient Dave | May 4, 2014

Guest post by SPM member Leslie Kernisan, whose words first appeared here in a September interview at Medicine X: “Leslie Kernisan (Twitter @GeriTechBlog), a geriatrician who’s deeply interested in and committed to enabling elders and caregivers through patient...