Caption

general

Patient Stories on Health Web Sites Can Not Always Be Trusted

Gilles Frydman | March 15, 2010

Guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine. Lisa teaches Online Consumer Health and Web Strategies for Health Communication. A social media user herself, Lisa (Twitter, LinkedIn) blogs on health and is Editor-in-Chief of eLearn Magazine, where she blogs on education. “On the [...]

policy issues

Health data rights on CNN

Susannah Fox | January 14, 2010

Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, captured the zeitgeist of the health data rights movement in today’s must-read article, Patients demand: ‘Give us our damned data’. An e-patients all-star team is quoted in the story: Jen McCabe, Regina Holliday, e-Patient Dave, Alan Viars.

e-patient stories, key people, reforming hc

Regina Holliday’s mural is in the BMJ

e-Patient Dave | September 12, 2009

We’ve written here before about Regina Holliday (follow her blog), whose husband Fred died June 17. In today’s edition of the British Medical Journal, her mural is the picture of the week: Ted Eytan MD took the picture and posted it on Flickr. Today he sent this email to Reggie: ====== Dear Regina, You made [...]

general

Guest post on The Ideal Doctor/Patient Relationship (Kent Bottles, MD)

e-Patient Dave | July 23, 2009

Guest post by Kent Bottles, M.D., President of ICSI. Preface: The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement is a Minnesota-based non-profit that “brings together diverse groups to transform the health care system so that it delivers patient-centered and value-driven care.” Needless to say, I like how they think. (Good taste, too – they invited me to [...]