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#WhyPM?
Note: if you do not use Twitter an explanation of this post’s title may be in order. #WhyPM is the Twitter hashtag we have been using collectively to announce the launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and to mention topics of interest from the Journal and the Internet. So what is Participatory Medicine? Simply [...]
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Christensen/Hwang: “Power to the Patients” (The Atlantic)
“While other industries take as their focus such shallow concerns as the making of money, the health care profession prides itself on dealing with matters of life and death. But that’s not the only thing distinguishing health care from other industries: it is also unique in the extent to which it excludes consumers from important [...]
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Question For President Obama
Guest Post: Cindy Throop from http://Open-Health.us, a participatory forum dedicated to effectively including patients in the discussion, planning, and evaluation of health care reform. A lot of money is about to be invested in health care, particularly into health information technology (HIT). Does this mean that when your health care provider(s) implement electronic medical records, [...]
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My Right to Data, Happiness, and a Long and Healthy Life
“To alienate [patients] from their own decision making is to change them into objects.” – P. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed The newly drafted Declaration of Health Data Rights, created by patient advocates, caregivers, health care professionals, technology and policy experts, and entrepreneurs (in some cases, all attributes in the same person), states that its [...]
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