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Fwd: [New post] Does scientific misconduct cause patient harm? The
Important quick update – pardon the lack of formatting – I’ll try to clean it up later – ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Retraction Watch Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM Subject: [New post] Does scientific misconduct cause patient harm? The case of Joachim Boldt To: dave@epatientdave.com Does scientific misconduct cause patient harm? [...]
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Health Affairs Patient Engagement Edition – with videos and commentary
The Health Affairs February 2013 issue is titled “New Era of Patient Engagement” and the content matches the title. Nick Dawson describes the day in his blog post Health Affairs is the new shirtless dancing guy Here’s a short extract from the blog post. It’s worth reading, it has other interesting tidbits. The briefing was [...]
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What if we treated substandard *info* like substandard drugs? (Riff on an IOM report)
Major typo fix, 3:23pm – “they’re giving” is not same as “they’re given”! Sorry. This note arrived today from the Institute of Medicine. I’m in DC at the moment, at a big briefing by the Health Affairs policy journal about patient engagement, and a key issue keeps coming up: the problems that happen when patients [...]
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Eric Topol at Rock Health
Thanks to Carla Berg for sharing this: Eric Topol was on Rock Center tonight. He talked about the patient empowerment and give us our data themes he brings up towards the end, he did everything but mention #gmdd and patients in the drivers seat explicitly. The key to better health care may already be in your [...]
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HIMSS blog featured e-Patient Dave
The HIMSS blog features e-Patient Dave, the 5 Es of e-Patients and how social media can help. http://blog.himss.org/2013/01/25/part-1-value-of-social-media-in-healthcare-is-already-outlined-just-not-realized/ For whatever reason – whether it’s budget, time, buy-in or understanding – healthcare hasn’t fully embraced social media. But luckily the ePatient movement has already—perhaps unknowingly—done the grunt work and outlined the tenets of realizing social media’s [...]
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Medical Errors: Will We Act Up, Fight Back?
(Originally published on the CFAH Prepared Patient Forum January 16, 2013) Sometimes, angry patients and dissident doctors and nurses warn us about the impending patient revolution – how health care is so unsafe, of such poor quality and so expensive for us patients that we are soon going to rise up out of our beds, [...]
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MedKaz blog: “Where’s the urgency, the anger, the outrage?”
Merle Bushkin of MedKaz (a secure PHR device) is extremely unhappy with the reality that although we’ve spent years and billions on EMR adoption, the practice of healthcare hasn’t transformed yet. In “Where’s the urgency, the anger, the outrage?” he cites, among other things, In two high profile examples, both Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the National [...]
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The Waiting Room
Check out the documentary film, The Waiting Room, set in the emergency department of Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. I wrote a post about a screening and discussion in DC last night and I’m hoping to get a report from tonight’s Cambridge, MA, event. If it’s not playing near you, follow the team on Twitter, [...]
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First Electronic Health Record exchange in MA @stales
Member Alicia Staley on the HIT Community (MA HI Community) blog with a great recount of the first EHR exchange in Massachusetts – it happened last week: https://www.thehitcommunity.org/2012/10/16596/
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New IOM Report To Be Released Sept 6 (webcast)
Our friend Jim Conway, revered advocate for better care, writes: To my colleagues in the patient and family centered care, personal and public engagement community. On September 6th the IOM will release a new report on building a learning healthcare system, “Best Care at Lower Cost”. I’ve been proud to be part of the committee [...]
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