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Bye Bye Google Health
Like so many attempts before it — drkoop.com and RevolutionHealth.com to name just two — Google has found that implementing personal health records in a meaningful way is really, really hard. So hard, in fact, that it has given up and is shuttering its Google Health service, after just 3 years being open to the [...]
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Patient to doctor: “Why aren’t you harder on me?”
A joint post by e-Patient Dave and Dr. Danny Sands, written from alternating points of view. Danny: An important moment happened a few months ago during office hours – important because it brought a profound shift in Dave’s view of the doctor-patient relationship. And that’s a vital part of participatory medicine.
Read Morenews & gossip, reforming hc, Why PM
Healthcare journalists point out difficulty of using Joint Commission’s hospital quality site
Empowered patients know they’re responsible for their choice of care providers. We usually follow our clinicians’ advice, but we take responsibility for it. That’s hard when a quality agency obscures its findings. So I object to a reality reported this week by AHCJ, the Association of Health Care Journalists: Joint Commission site obscures information. Excerpt: (emphasis added)
Read Morepositive patterns, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM
Health 2.010: New Year, New Era
This is a guest post by Lucien Engelen (Dutch Twitter friend @Zorg20), who was featured in October’s The internet is changing healthcare – video from Reshape09. Here, he takes it to the next step, moving from health 2.0 to “health 2.010”. I love it! – Dave
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