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Senator Ted Kennedy was an e-patient
CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen makes a compelling case in her column today: How to get Kennedy-esque health care on your budget. Anyone with internet access can gather the information they need to make better health decisions, as e-Patient Dave and Karen Parles did, and refuse to take “no” for an answer, as Sen. Kennedy did.
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Age of Participatory Medicine
Kevin Kruse posted a video yesterday which includes this line: The age of participatory medicine has begun. It’s a promo for e-Patients Connections 2009, a conference to be held in Philadelphia this October, but also has good citations (ahem, including my reports). See what you think.
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Social Media’s Promise for Public Health
Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help. That’s my summary of presentations from last week’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media conference, where I had the sense, once again, of a tribal meeting, but this one had the urgency of war council. The enemy [...]
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e-Patient Training Topic: National Article Reports Relative Risk, Not Raw Data.
Important update: it turns out the writer did get it right, and this was an editing error at the Boston Globe. See my comment August 17. —– As empowered, engaged patients we have a responsibility to evaluate the articles we read. A case in point is this week’s Associated Press article Any Spread Of Breast Cancer [...]
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How to Rein in Medical Costs
You know you’re going to get a pretty interesting debate about healthcare costs when George Lundberg offers his advice on how to control health care costs right now. A well thought-out piece and one deserving of everyone’s time to read it. Costs can be reigned in, if only we had the willpower to do it.
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Trying to Measure the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?
Patient safety is important, and the safety of internet health data has been an ongoing concern for ages. We now have a great addition to the literature: “Trying to Measure the Quality of Health Information on the Internet: Is It Time to Move On?” It’s an editorial in the new issue of the Journal of [...]
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KQED examines realities of Canadian healthcare
Good piece on NPR this morning about what a KQED correspondent found when she went to Canada and talked to citizens and doctors about their experience of wait times. Click to go to their site and listen. One might ask, what does this have to do with patient empowerment? In my view, one of the [...]
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e-Patients: a high tech group wants our input (gasp!) on connected health. DO IT!
I’m not making this up; it’s a wonderful thing. MassMEDIC, the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, is looking at the future of “connected health” devices. They’ve got a survey that’s been given to all kinds of industry and policy people, and now, blow me down, they want patients to take the survey too. DO IT! [...]
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