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Calling All Physicians: Support the Participatory Medicine Movement

Daniel Z. Sands, MD, MPH | March 10, 2010

Participatory Medicine is a new paradigm in healthcare, one that promises to enhance healthcare efficiency, transform the experience for both the patient and their providers, and improve healthcare outcomes. This cultural shift requires adaptation among healthcare professionals (including physicians) as well as patients and caregivers. And yet changing culture amongst physicians remains challenging, for a [...]

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Unleash the Hot Talent: A Letter from a Patient

e-Patient Dave | January 20, 2010

This is a guest post from Christine Kraft, Twitter friend @ChristineKraft. She’s a pensive, musey blogger at CocoVillage, and “wicked smaht,” as we say in Boston. She’s also the one who introduced us to Regina Holliday last year. She recognizes talent when she sees it – and here, she plays the role of patient as ingenue, [...]

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Participatory Medicine and Patient Research: It’s Gonna be a New World, indeed!

Charlie Smith | September 17, 2009

Matthew Herper’s post about thalidomide treatment of Myeloma is a good example of how patients will contribute to medical knowledge in the future, and may form a cautionary tale for patients who get involved to this degree in formulating new treatment approaches.

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Participatory Medicine: Blending Traditional Medicine with “Health 2.0″

Charlie Smith | June 16, 2009

Tom Davenport, in a Harvard Business Publishing Blog post, does a nice job of discussing the merging of “Health 2.0″, the aggregate of online communities, wiki’s, bloggers, and tweets, with the role of traditional medical providers. He asks whether, if you get seriously ill, you will rely solely on colleagues online or whether you’ll seek out a [...]