Society for Participatory Medicine
e-patients.net blog
Healthcare Delivery
found on the net, news & gossip, positive patterns
Would Your Doctor Pay for Wasted Time? (CNN.com)
Strictly speaking this isn’t about participatory medicine, but it is about being an empowered consumer of care. There are several dimensions to empowerment, including (but not limited to): Knowing what you want Recognizing whether you’re getting it When you’re not, speaking up about it – courteously, when you can. You know real change is happening [...]
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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 [...]
Read Morepolicy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM
The Invisible Stakeholder:
Why America Needs a Patient-in-Chief
The following is the proposal I submitted Tuesday, to speak at O’Reilly / TechWeb’s Government 2.0 Expo, May 25–27 in Washington. ______________________________ The Invisible Stakeholder: Why America Needs a Patient-in-Chief “These are exciting and very promising times for the widespread application of information technology to improve the quality of healthcare delivery, while also reducing costs, [...]
Read Moremedical records, policy issues, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles
e-Patients: a high tech group wants our input (gasp!) on connected health. DO IT!
I’m not making this up; it’s a wonderful thing. MassMEDIC, the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, is looking at the future of “connected health” devices. They’ve got a survey that’s been given to all kinds of industry and policy people, and now, blow me down, they want patients to take the survey too. DO IT! [...]
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