Society for Participatory Medicine
e-patients.net blog
demographics, news & gossip, trends & principles
Mobile, social technology and the impact on health care
Fard Johnmar interviewed me about internet adoption, the use of social technologies among minority groups, and my hope that e-patients’ “passion, knowledge, and ingenuity is brought forward no matter what else is planned for health care reform.”
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A business thinker asks: what will it take to get traction?
IBM’s “Smarter Planet” blog has picked up e-Patient Dave’s post A Thousand Points of Pain, about how enmeshed and entangled our healthcare system has become, and the implications for people who want to design a transformed system. Dave added a prolog for business audiences. The result is A Business Thinker Asks: What Will It Take [...]
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Electronic Medical Records? Yeah, Not So Much
So with all this talk about healthcare technologies and the new budget and Health 2.0, you’d think that electronic medical records (EMRs) were on the rise. Perhaps they are, but as the Associated Press reports, fewer than 2 percent of providers have completely abandoned paper charts. Another 8 to 11 percent of hospitals have basic [...]
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If you have been the victim of clinical harm…
… or involved in an incident, as patient or provider, Paul Levy solicits your submission. He’s hosting the medical blogosphere’s Grand Rounds next Tuesday, and has chosen the topic When Things Go Awry. Details and instructions are here.
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e-Patient Judy Feder:
Patient Community Knowledge Saves a Life
Judy Feder is an e-patient who has contributed several comments here in the past. But it was just today that I learned what an extraordinary new e-patient chapter has unfolded in her life in the past few months. If you’re a student of the e-patient principles, see how much e-patient you can spot in this [...]
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Dr. Reuben deeply regrets that this happened!
This is the third post in the unfortunate series about conflicts of interest. You must be kiddin’! That’s all Scott Reuben, MD, the doctor Scientific American calls “a medical Madoff“, had to say after putting the last two handful of nails into the coffin of the scientific peer-reviewed process? You see, Dr. Reuben is responsible [...]
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Let’s hear it for the d-patient e-patients. :-)
Update 3/21: For easier reference, I’m editing this to incorporate some goodies from comments below. Here’s a little game that just might turn into something transformational. Since I started learning about this world of participatory medicine, I’ve looked for patterns that can teach us something. (That’s what I do at work, in high tech – [...]
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Imagine someone had been managing your money and you thought you weren’t qualified.
I want 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 training and licensing. Imagine that all your records were in their possession, and you could occasionally see parts of them, but you just [...]
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I Am “A Nobody & A Nothing” & I’m Proud Of It!
In our continuous series about undeclared conflicts of interest comes a great blog post from the Wall Street Journal. In it JAMA’s editor in chief, Catherine DeAngelis, M.D, interviewed about a certain Jonathan Leo, had these choice words to describe him: “this guy is a nobody and a nothing. He is trying to make a name [...]
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Bartering for your health
The wonderfully helpful NYTimes series Patient Money reported Friday on the topic of Opaque Inc., as posted recently here by Gilles. The article, Bargaining Down the Medical Bills, gives practical advice about how to negotiate your doctor, lab, and hospital fees. The good news about the bad economy is that the skyrocketing number of uninsured, [...]
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