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Evidence from Patients Like Me

Jillian Ketterer — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:42:07 +0000

What is evidence? I ask myself this question fairly often since I work in innovation. In trying to generate disruptive and transformative ideas, it is important to understand what has been "established", and why. The next question is: should it change? If so, how?

First International mHealth Networking Conference (I was there!)

Jillian Ketterer — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:03:46 +0000

Last week (February 3-4, 2010) I attended the mHealth Networking Conference in DC. Sponsored by mHealth Initiative Inc (mHI), the conference was focused around the use of emerging mobile technologies to improve healthcare delivery. Here are a few themes to give you a flavor: iPhones/mobile phones/Android phones, emailing your doctor, bringing evidence to practice via electronic alerts for patients and physicians, home health monitoring, real-time everything, connectivity, usability, patient literacy, technologies for chronic care management and geriatrics.) The full program seems to still be available, and relevant Twitter posts (e.g., for the #mHealth hash tag) are also available.

e-Patient Infiltrates Medical Professional Assessment Organization

Amber Montanano — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:39:03 +0000

On January 11, we had a guest come in and shake things up a bit here. Jen McCabe Gorman gave a really engaging talk (which can be found here if you’ve got an hour to kill and feel like you could use some stimulation) about medicine, social media, and how the two can be mashed together to help you become a participant in your care as opposed to simply the object of your doctor’s care.

20 people who make healthcare better

Kathleen Rose — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:22:36 +0000

I followed a link in a tweet today to an article in Health Leaders Media that put the spotlight on 20 people who make healthcare better. I'm not sure if the profiles are in any particular order, but I was pleased to note that three of the first four on the list were familiar names--Atul Gawande, Dave deBronkart, and Daniel Sands, MD. Full of confidence in my ability to identify and pursue the right "people in motion," I scanned the remaining names on the list and did not recognize any of them. The good news is that there are 17 more interesting people I plan to learn about.

I know I’m preaching to the choir.

Amber Montanano — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:02:47 +0000

e-Patients are getting more and more press lately. This morning I heard some people on the radio talking about how folks are using the internet for support and information. They even dropped the Patients Like Me name. What surprises me more than anything is that it's taking so long to get the medical community to pay attention to the social media explosion.

Medicine 2.0 – A truly engaging conference

Kathleen Rose — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:40:24 +0000

When I scout “medical conferences,” I attend sessions, scribble notes, and retreat to my room in complete control of the television remote (a feat almost never achieved at home). The “take home” is usually an update on the latest techno-medical snippets for colleagues interested in the future of medical education and assessment.