Insurance

e-patient stories, general, Why PM

A family becomes e-patients, of necessity — and succeeds

e-Patient Dave | October 10, 2009

This is an inspiring story from several years ago of how a family became e-patients. When things got rough they were empowered and engaged, taking matters into their own hands. As the picture shows, there’s a happy ending, though it was rough along the way. Unlike millions in the US today, Gangadhar Sulkunte and his [...]

general, news & gossip, policy issues, reforming hc

What do YOU think they mean by “health reform”?

e-Patient Dave | July 28, 2009

After hearing about 800 million mentions of “healthcare reform” in the past couple of months, this weekend I visited my normal (not-HC-geek) family in Maryland for Mom’s 80th birthday. (Woohoo! Large clan descends, six siblings and most of the grandlings.) Inevitably the subject of reform came up, and I realized not everyone is aware of [...]

news & gossip, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles

Another great reason to be a participatory e-patient

e-Patient Dave | May 20, 2009

The Boston Globe had a brief interview with me last Monday, and commenter “MikeScanlon” gave a great additional reason to go “e”: Doctors are required to respond to a lot of things – health insurance requirements, liability insurance requirements, rules and regulations of all sort – and finally, the assumptions about their patients that they [...]