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Patient Communities… at Walgreens?

June 17, 2010 By Susannah Fox 30 Comments

Aisle of a Walgreens drug store

UPDATE: On Feb. 18, 2015, PatientsLikeMe and Walgreens announced a partnership: “Now, anyone researching a medication or filling a prescription on Walgreens.com can access a simple snapshot that shows how their prescribed medication has impacted other patients on the therapy, including medication side effects, as reported by PatientsLikeMe members.” One more step away from “crazy” and toward “obvious” […]

Filed Under: e-pts resources, patient networks Tagged With: American Well, CureTogether, Diabetic Connect, Diana Forsythe, E-Patient Dave, Google Health, Inspire, MedHelp, Microsoft HealthVault, patientslikeme, Rite Aid, Ted Eytan, Walgreens

Engage With Grace

November 26, 2009 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Alexandra Drane and her team have a new post on The Health Care Blog about how to put this holiday to work in a new way. Here’s a snippet: Some conversations are easier than others Our original mission – to get more and more people talking about their end of life wishes – hasn’t changed. […]

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Engage With Grace

November 26, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

The following post was written by Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace Team. Here’s an image of the slide, and below is the post that many are sharing today. (The original PowerPoint slide is linked within the post.) Please see comments at end.

Filed Under: e-pts resources Tagged With: end of life, Engage with Grace

Eyeballs AND Data, Please–Susannah Fox

September 3, 2008 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Jeff Howe’s blog post, “Can We Crowdsource Medical Expertise?” elicited the following comment from Daniel Reda of CureTogether.com: “Personally, just like I have batting averages, crash test ratings and historical earnings, I’d like to see the data on whoever interprets my MRI and whoever makes my diagnosis, regardless of whether it’s an amateur in a […]

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Consumers talk back to CNN’s Empowered Patient–Susannah Fox

May 19, 2008 By Susannah Fox 12 Comments

For several informative empowered patient stories, see the Comments at bottom of this post. CNN’s Empowered Patient column, by medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, contains good, if not groundbreaking, advice, plus the occasional exaggeration or misconception. For example, here on e-patients.net, Charlie Smith praised the Empowered Patient column on misdiagnosis; Gilles Frydman dismantled the tips on […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, e-pts resources

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

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