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Gangadhar Sulkunte: TEDMED 2012 Highlights
For those who didn’t make it to TEDMED 2012, here’s a brief overview of sessions of interest to e-patients, from SPM member Gangadhar Sulkunte. This originally appeared on his blog. Also noteworthy was TEDMED’s acceptance of “The Role of the Patient.” as on of its next “Great Challenges.” I was able to secure a scholarship [...]
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TEDMED and RWJF accept “The Role of the Patient” as a Great Challenge
We posted Wednesday about the Great Challenges program at TEDMED, created by TEDMED and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We said, “We must vote.” You did. We’re in. To see all the challenges that were accepted, go to Challenges.TEDMED.com, and click “The 20 Great Challenges” at bottom left. (The site doesn’t offer direct URLs to [...]
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Scott Strange: The Only “Thing” that Can Empower You Is You
This guest post by SPM member Scott Strange originally appeared on his blog, Strangely Diabetic. Scott will host this week’s #s4pm Tweetchat on Wednesday, April 11 at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific (username @Strangely_t1) on #diabetes. It seems that every day we read a new announcement about some new health app or service that will empower you. [...]
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MIT Media Lab’s Health & Wellness 2012: ten day innovation fest, six us-centered projects
Updated 9:38pm ET – fixed many broken links :-/ I’m spending today (ONLY today, unfortunately) at the MIT Media Lab’s third annual Health & Wellness Innovation event. It’s a two week competition – six teams pursuing some terrific ideas for the most patient-friendly health innovations I’ve ever heard of. Or close to it. I’ll write [...]
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HBR blog: “The trouble with treating patients as consumers”
Edited a few minutes after the original post. Over on the Harvard Business Review blog a post yesterday is stirring up discussion. I hope well-informed SPM members can help shed some light in the comments there, citing as many specifics as you can. (As I compiled the paste-ins for this post, I was struck again [...]
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@AfternoonNapper on two Stanford medicine blogs
New SPM member @AfternoonNapper Sarah Kucharski was just featured on the Stanford School of Medicine blog, for a conversation she had on their Medicine X blog (emerging technologies) about how web-savvy patients are changing what’s acceptable in medicine. Well done!
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Alert: Lawrence Weed, father of the Problem Oriented Medical Record, looks ahead
The excellent ICMCC daily newsletter just alerted me to this item from Permanente Journal: Interview with Lawrence Weed, MD – The Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record Looks Ahead. I hope to absorb it in the next day or two, and I invite people who know this history to do the same. It’s deep, and it’s connected [...]
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Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes en Español
To read this post in English, click here. Hacía tiempo que teníamos en mente la posibilidad de llevar a cabo la traducción del Libro Blanco de los e-Pacientes al Español, ya que con más de 420 millones de hispanoparlantes en todo el planeta, nuestro idioma es ya la segunda lengua más hablada en el mundo, [...]
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Announcing: the e-Patient White Paper, in Spanish
It’ s been a long time coming, but it’s here! From the English “e-Patients: How they can help us heal health care,” you can now click to download the Spanish e-Pacientes: cómo nos pueden ayudar a mejorar la salud. To read this post in Spanish, click here. From the editors of the Spanish edition, Elia Gabarrón and Luis Fernández [...]
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A glimpse of OpenNotes findings: “Patients are overwhelmingly interested”
“Patients are overwhelmingly interested in gaining rapid access to their notes … doctors have not experienced significant disruptions to their work.” Hear hear! That’s from a new commentary published Monday in Modern Healthcare about the OpenNotes project, in which patients have full access to their doctor’s visit notes. We’ve written about it numerous times, dating back to our [...]
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