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Archives for December 2008

Patient Voices at CHCF’s Chronic Disease Care Conference

December 29, 2008 By Susannah Fox 7 Comments

This is the second in a series of posts about the California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference (the first was Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks). Patient Voices: Managing Chronic Conditions, Living our Lives Ted Eytan snapped a photo that captured this session: Patient Involvement Makes People Smile Here is each person’s story:

Filed Under: e-patient stories, positive patterns, reforming hc Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, chronic disease, conferences, diabetes, e-patients

NIH Summit on Health Disparities–Susannah Fox

December 17, 2008 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

NIH is sponsoring a summit this week, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. I heard about it from Mary Brophy Marcus’s article in USA Today and I found this press release online, but I haven’t seen other coverage of the event. If you spot stories about the summit in the news, on blogs, on Twitter, […]

Filed Under: demographics, hc's problem list Tagged With: digital divide, health disparities, NIH

Breaking News at Hematology Meeting – for Patients–Susannah Fox

December 11, 2008 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

Andrew Schorr is the founder of Patient Power, LLC, and shares this dispatch, his second for e-patients.net: I had a whirlwind weekend at the Moscone Center in San Francisco where I broadcast five and a half hours of live interviews with leading hematologists and hematologist/oncologists on the latest news in a variety of chronic conditions. […]

Filed Under: key people, net-friendly docs Tagged With: Andrew Schorr, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, Patient Power, podcasts, sickle cell anemia

Personalized Medicine, the Next Frontier–Susannah Fox

December 10, 2008 By Susannah Fox 2 Comments

Nancy B. Finn is a journalist with an expertise in the implementation of digital communications in health care. This is her second guest post on e-patients.net: When an individual patient visits his or her doctor with a problem, traditional clinical diagnosis is made and treatment is administered based on the patient’s symptoms, medical and family […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: Center for Genetics and Genomics, clinical diagnosis, disease prevention, genetic, genomic, Harvard Medical School, Nancy B. Finn, Partners Healthcare, personalized medicine

Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles

December 2, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from Microsoft’s Live Search engine and MSN Health and Fitness) as well as a survey of 515 […]

Filed Under: news & gossip, understanding statistics Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cyberchondria, Diana Forsythe, microsoft, New York Times, search

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