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Joe Kvedar’s “cHealth blog” (Connected Health)

We’re long overdue in welcoming Joe Kvedar MD of Partners Healthcare to the blogosphere. From his About page: “The term “connected health” reflects the range of opportunities for technology-enabled care programs and the potential for new strategies in...

Why Participatory Medicine?

For most people, their impetus to be actively engaged in healthcare comes from an experience with serious illness—either their own or a loved one’s. My journey into participatory medicine began during my internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, a public...

Patients first. Doctors second.

An Op-Ed piece at the healthcare blog, written by 2 MDs from Harvard Medical School is pretty clear! For those of us who believe the time has come for participatory medicine, the following quote is particularly interesting: Empowering patients should be the first step...

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