by e-Patient Dave | Aug 6, 2013
One of the most-quoted eye-opening quotes in “Doc Tom” Ferguson’s e-Patient White Paper is this: As Donald Lindberg, director of the National Library of Medicine, explains, “If I read and memorized two medical journal articles every night, by the end...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 13, 2013
In medicine, to achieve the best you need the best information. So an essential question is, who gets to say what’s best? That question took a sharp turn this week with the news that Medpedia is dead. Medical librarian Laika Spoetnik has a strong post on the...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 14, 2013
This morning on Facebook, an SPM member (who were you??) pointed out that it was seven years ago today that “Doc Tom” Ferguson, the visionary who foresaw the e-patient movement, passed away unexpectedly while being treated for multiple myeloma. Click the...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 25, 2011
Last fall, at the e-Patient Connections conference, I gave a sneak preview of some survey results which are set to be have been released on the Pew Internet site on Monday, Feb. 28. I hoped to spark new ideas for a savvy, plugged-in audience and I ended up surprising...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 5, 2010
Regular readers know that our founder, “Doc Tom” Ferguson, was an absolute visionary who saw that patients have a much bigger role in their own health than most people realize – at least in our culture. The white paper at top right of this site is...
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