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e-pts resources, general, PM Tech

Katie Matlack: iOS medical peripherals: convenient and connected

Kathleen O'Malley | February 1, 2012

This guest post from Katie Matlack (reposted from the free site Software Advice) launches a new section of e-Patients.net: “PM Tech.” This special branch of e-patient resources is gaining importance as smartphones and tablets become ever more mainstream. Devices that were once just toys for techies are now the favorite tools of many ex-technophobes — [...]

e-pts resources, found on the net, trends & principles

Nancy Finn: Smartphone Health Care Apps Storm the Market

Kathleen O'Malley | November 9, 2011

Guest blogger Nancy Finn reports on the popularity of health apps. She is the author of e-Patients Live Longer. The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a national telephone survey of 2,277 adults in May 2011 and found that 83% own some kind of cell phone. One-third of these cell phone users (35%) own [...]

net-friendly docs, pt/doc co-care, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM

Why the Journal of Participatory Medicine?

e-Patient Dave | October 12, 2009

Next week at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston, the Society for Participatory Medicine will launch its new journal. In keeping with the society’s spirit of physician-patient partnership, the Co-Editors in Chief are a physician and a patient: Charlie Smith MD (the primary physician of our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson) and Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., who [...]