by e-Patient Dave | Apr 1, 2009
This is a complex post, so don’t jump to any conclusions. Two weeks ago (gad, was it that long?) I asked you to think about something for a few days: Imagine that for all your life, and your parents’ lives, your money had been managed by other people who had extensive...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Jul 29, 2008
The e-Patients Group has been discussing Shannon Brownlee’s book Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, which tells how the logic of the U.S. healthcare system works against coordination and effective treatment. “Between 20 and...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 28, 2008
The California HealthCare Foundation published a report the other day entitled The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media (PDF) which is a nice overview of the current state of Health 2.0. The report is four chapters long: Social Networks Come to...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 9, 2008
David Brown over at the Washington Post wrote an article yesterday noting that prevention isn’t necessarily cheaper than “doing nothing” and letting people get sick. Well, “Duh,” I say. Prevention is an intervention, it’s just an...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 8, 2008
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, non-partisan research organization with a trustee list dominated by corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with that — my own funders, the Pew Charitable Trusts, are also listed on the...
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