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Health Data is Useful… if it Informs Conversations
Dr. Roni Zeiger, MD is currently Chief Health Strategist at Google where he has helped create and lead Google Health. He continues to see patients on occasional evenings and weekends at a local urgent care center. Roni earned his MD at Stanford and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. [...]
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What my mom takes to the doctor
I was talking to Mom (age 80) the other night, and she mentioned a document she updates regularly. She prints a fresh copy to take to every doctor visit, so they’ll always have it up to date and won’t have to go digging. We’ve never discussed topics like “the importance of med reconciliation,” but when [...]
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A Patient-Centric Definition of Participatory Medicine
Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners. This new definition devised by the board of the Society of Participatory Medicine provides clarity for the movement. It is a paradigmatic shift and [...]
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