Society for Participatory Medicine
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Harvard Medical School
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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 healthcare delivery. “A division of Partners HealthCare, the Center for Connected Health works with Harvard Medical School-affiliated [...]
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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 urban hospital, in the late 1980s. While there, I had a number of realizations [...]
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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 in transforming American healthcare. The central question that policy makers should [...]
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Personalized Medicine, the Next Frontier
Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care. This is her second guest post on e-patients.net: When an individual patient visits his or her doctor with a problem, traditional clinical diagnosis is made and treatment is administered based on the patient’s symptoms, medical and family [...]
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