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JAMA: Reducing the Trauma of Hospitalization

by Ileana Balcu | May 6, 2014

Thanks to member Marilyn Mann for sharing this free article in JAMA with a suggestion on how to better personalize the patient’s hospital stay – really sensible suggestions. One reads them and wonders why they are not in place already. An excerpt: Stress...

Patient Designed: Top 3 things hospitals can do today to be more participatory

by Nick Dawson | Dec 19, 2013

The Society for Participatory Medicine, through its founders and mission, has a strong belief in the expertise of its patient members – many of whom identify as providers or journalists or have expertise in HIT, health economics and other areas. Patients, often...

Monday: Watch the Consumer Health IT Summit live. Our time is here!

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 15, 2013

Monday Sept. 16 is the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit. That means we, the patients, are the focus – we and our data, of course! – along with the providers (doctors, nurses, practices, hospitals) who serve us. You can watch live, online, without prior...

Beth Israel Deaconess FAQ for their patients reading OpenNotes

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 6, 2013

Clarification 9/7: The FAQ posted below is of course authored by my hospital, not by me. Several people misunderstood so I edited this and the headline. On Wednesday I posted about the roll-out of OpenNotes to over a million patients and families. That post arose when...

RECENT rule violations that caused serious harm: CMS releases searchable database

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 18, 2013

For the patient safety crowd – which is all of us, when we shop for medical services: Cheryl Clark of Health Leader just posted this on Facebook, from this weekend’s Boston meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ): “For the first...