Examining Room

general

EHR Etiquette and the Importance of Eye Contact in Clinician-Patient Communication

Gilles Frydman | March 18, 2010

Another guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, following her much-commented earlier post. Lisa is 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 [...]

Making Healthcare Better through Participatory Medicine

e-Patient Dave | December 10, 2009

There’s new validation that participatory medicine is an idea whose time has come: the co-chairs of the Society for Participatory Medicine (my primary physician Dr. Danny Sands and I) are on this year’s list of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better, an annual feature of HealthLeaders magazine. We want to acknowledge some of the pioneers who [...]