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Nancy Finn: E-Visits foster continuum of care and communication, but there is a price
Nancy Finn submitted this guest post about the challenges facing doctors and patients who want to have clinical conversations online. The quest for the right communication formula and balance that will satisfy doctors and e-patients who want to experience continuous care can be partially resolved with the spread of virtual clinical electronic messaging, or e-visits. [...]
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JoPM recommendation: “Team Up for Health”
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published a Media Watch piece about a new initiative from the California HealthCare Foundation called Team Up for Health. This website is a good example of an online tool that helps primary care providers support patients in the self-management of their chronic conditions.
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Social media, patients, and physicians: a sticky wicket
Social media is well established in our society and it shows much promise as a tool of patient-physician communication. But despite some cases of good and enriching rapport between patients and physicians in social media, the medical world, on the whole, is still cautiously trying to make sense of social media and how to use [...]
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Examples, please: peer-to-peer healthcare
I’m writing an article and would love to tap into this community’s knowledge. I know of a few examples of clinical practices using Facebook and Twitter to connect with patients, such as MacArthur OB/GYN, but I’d love to learn about other examples, especially ones which use social networking tools to connect patients and caregivers with [...]
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Pioneers of patient engagement
Credit where credit is due. The Danish Medical Association’s annual meeting is coming up in a few days. For the event’s blog, they requested a post about patient engagement! I wrote about the pioneers at my hospital who for many years have been saying that patients are the most underused resource in healthcare. The post [...]
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SPM on the Air: People’s Pharmacy (NPR)
Joe and Terry Graedon, long-time friends of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, produce The People’s Pharmacy, a website and radio program on NPR. Last Saturday’s program was about the Society for Participatory Medicine, which they helped to found in 2009. (They were also among Doc Tom’s advisors on the e-patient white paper.) The full program (one hour) is [...]
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“How to become a more effective e-patient” (and clinician): lecture at Duke by Dr. Charles Smith
Well, here’s a treat: Dr. Charles Smith, a founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine, recently gave a lecture at Duke titled “How to Become a More Effective e-Patient.” Here it is, in four YouTube segments. “Charlie,” as we all call him, is a wonderful guy. He’s co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and [...]
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Medical Self-Care: The Doc Tom interview in Mother Earth News
Next in our series of posts about our founder Doc Tom. Previous time capsules: 1980 and 1985. Come, ye economics buffs and algebra fans; get out your pencils and solve for x, n, and XX: Whatever else the year 19XX is remembered for, it will — without a doubt — go down in history as [...]
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Next history lesson: Doc Tom (and the Graedons) in the way-back machine
Last Friday we dug up our founder Doc Tom’s Seven Laws of Self-Care, from 1985. At one time Tom served as medical editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Woodstock-era empowerment resource whose subtitle was “Access to Tools.” At left (click to enlarge) is the cover of the original 1968 edition – just as I [...]
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Blowing your mind with Doc Tom’s seven laws of self care
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 the culmination of his life’s thinking. Through some obsessive [...]
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