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Friends, Family, and Post-surgical Outcomes

February 19, 2008 By Susannah Fox 10 Comments

An article in this week’s Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that “patients with larger social networks showed better outcomes than patients with small or nonexistent social networks.” Here is the abstract (note: the first time I clicked through to the site I was able to access the full-text version but now I […]

Filed Under: patient networks

Technology as a means, not an end–Susannah Fox

February 14, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

I was part of a brainstorming session yesterday about the role of technology in health and health care, in preparation for a June 2008 Ix conference here in DC. Here is one of the quotes I captured from another participant: Technology is always framed as an end and it is not. It is a means. […]

Filed Under: policy issues Tagged With: EHR, EMR, technology

Go online. Not too much. Mostly…?–Susannah Fox

February 12, 2008 By Susannah Fox 15 Comments

Michael Pollan’s answer to diet angst is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Is there an equivalent maxim for information angst? If not, does someone out there want to make one up? Because a new study published in Cancer argues that e-patients can take a common-sense approach to online health research and do […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: ama, cancer, e-patients, epatients, jama, journal, librarians, patients, quality

Harnessing Openness–Susannah Fox

February 8, 2008 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, non-partisan research organization with a trustee list dominated by corporations (not that there’s anything wrong with that — my own funders, the Pew Charitable Trusts, are also listed on the CED site). CED recently released an engaging report entitled, “Harnessing Openness to Transform American Health Care” […]

Filed Under: e-pts resources Tagged With: e-patients, healthcare, journal, new england journal of medicine, open source, plos

Consumer Resources–Susannah Fox

February 6, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

As we continue our discussion of the definitions of 2.0 and user-generated content (UGC), I thought I’d highlight some other buzzwords and link to a few consumer-oriented resources. I still trust librarians to help me judge information sources, so my first set of links are to articles that first appeared in The Journal of the […]

Filed Under: positive patterns Tagged With: e-patients, healia, health, librarians, medstory, pubmed, search

Medscape Editorial–Susannah Fox

January 29, 2008 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Check out this video editorial by Dr. Danny Sands entitled “ePatients: Engaging Patients in Their Own Care.” (Note: sign-up is free for site access.)

Filed Under: found on the net

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