Inviting Controversy: David Eddy at ICSI

December 1, 2009 · Filed Under found on the net · 1 Comment

David Eddy did nothing to reassure Kent Bottles about evidence-based guidelines in his recent keynote, saying essentially: “The problem is that we don’t know what we are doing” (!!)

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Give patients (that’s you) access to all their (your) data – so they can help

September 21, 2009 · Filed Under Why PM, policy issues, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles · 10 Comments

Cross-posted from my website, ePatientDave.com – the happy home for my new business!

I’ve just returned from Toronto, where I gave the opening keynote at the Medicine 2.0 Congress. It was titled “Gimme My Damn Data,” which is an unconventional title for an opening address, but I meant it. Here’s why.

A new world of participatory medicine has been growing for years, largely unnoticed. In this new world, healthcare is not a one-way street: empowered patients are engaged in their care, actively collaborating with their physicians, sharing responsibility for their care.

The healthcare providers (doctors, nurses, etc) are still the providers, but the patients share in both the knowledge and the responsibility for how it all turns out.

And, certainly, the decision making.

This requires that patients have access to their medical data. (Whose data is it, anyway?)
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Guest post on The Ideal Doctor/Patient Relationship (Kent Bottles, MD)

July 23, 2009 · Filed Under general · 23 Comments

Kent Bottles MD

Guest post by Kent Bottles, M.D., President of ICSI.

Preface: The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement is a Minnesota-based non-profit that “brings together diverse groups to transform the health care system so that it delivers patient-centered and value-driven care.”

Needless to say, I like how they think. (Good taste, too – they invited me to do a 90 minute keynote at their conference, May 3-5, 2010 in St. Paul.)

Anyway, Thursday morning on Twitter, @KentBottles retweeted this:

@ICSIorg: The Ideal Doctor/Patient Relationship:
Can Doctors Ever Know What Will Benefit the Patient?

Son of a gun, he’s writing about a book Patient, Heal Thyself that was the subject of a post here in January. The book takes a controversial position, going to the core of who’s responsible for what in the patient-provider relationship. And that’s at the core of participatory medicine. So we’re cross-posting Kent’s thoughts here.

The subject gave him a headache. You? –ePD
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