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Archives for April 2008

E-patient Interview: Amy Tenderich–Susannah Fox

April 18, 2008 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

Amy Tenderich is the engine behind DiabetesMine, “a gold mine of straight talk and encouragement for people living with diabetes.” Hearing her speak at Health 2.0 was a highlight of the conference for me and she just co-authored a book, so I wanted to bring her over to our page and ask a few questions […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, others' e-patient stories Tagged With: 99s, American Healthcare System, Asking The Right Questions, C Section, Collective Voice, Continuous Glucose, Diabetes Diagnosis, Glucose Monitors, Godsend, Gold Mine, Health Care Decisions, Health Insurance, Information Patients, Insulin Pumps, Kick Ass, Living With Diabetes, Patient Interview, Share Experiences, Straight Talk, Time In History, Type 1 Diabetes

No Secrets–Susannah Fox

April 16, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Ted Eytan‘s April 16, 2008, iHealthBeat column lays out the benefits of providing real-time, secure access to health records: “As our profession understands the benefits of patient partnership better, more medical groups are discovering that there aren’t compelling arguments for keeping patients’ information secret.”

Filed Under: found on the net

E-patient Interview: Stirrup Queen

April 16, 2008 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

Cheryl Miller has written an excellent article, “Blogging Infertility,” in The New Atlantis. She brings up a lot of themes that have been echoing throughout my other reading: a once-silent group newly empowered by the internet; teaming patients with similar profiles; home-care tips (there could be a whole blogroll on injections, btw, starting with AmyT […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, maternity, others' e-patient stories Tagged With: Cheryl Miller, Community Member, Ectopic, Endo, Health Care Decisions, New Atlantis, Nicu, Patient Community, Patient Interview, Peggy Orenstein, pregnancy, Reconnection, Self Advocate, Stirrup, Treatment Choices, Waiting For Daisy, Waiting Rooms

“You can do it. We can help.”–Susannah Fox

April 15, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

That’s Home Depot’s slogan and the subject of an excellent essay by Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine. Be sure to read the comments, where there is a healthy debate going on about mental illness, triple cheeseburgers, and paradigm shifts.

Filed Under: pt/doc co-care

Health Care Consumerism–Susannah Fox

April 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions released a very interesting report on “Health Care Consumerism” which looks at five “zones” of activity: traditional health services, self-directed care, alternative and non-conventional health services, financing, and information seeking. I recommend checking out their report for a few reasons: 1) Many of their findings ring true to me. […]

Filed Under: demographics Tagged With: consumer, data, online, participatory medicine, survey, typology

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