We had to include this powerful interview in our Year In Review. From E-Patient Connections 2011, renowned Soprano, Charity Tilleman-Dick shares her inspiring story with Pixels and Pills.
If you’ve seen it already, it’s definitely worth watching again.
Tags:#epatcon·Charity Tilleman-Dick·Communities·conference·Conferences·epatient·ePatient Connections·inspiration·patient·Patients·Video
by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3)
For over half a century, the Breathalyzer has given law-enforcement officials a portable, fairly reliable instrument to test for, and prevent, driving under the influence.
However, when you start to listen to the critics of the technology complain that diabetics, dieters, hyperventilaters, mouthwash users, cold medicine users or smokers can have incorrect results [...]
Tags:analyze·breathalyzers·data·Digital Tools·future·patient·Patients·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·technology·Trends·User Experience·user needs
by Russ Ward (@russcward)
What does it feel like to have a heart attack? What’s the cure for muscle soreness post-workout? What one daily habit has the most positive effect on your health?
These are real questions asked on the popular question and answer site Quora. Question sites such as Quora, Yahoo! Answers, and Fluther are proliferating [...]
Tags:Compliance·crowdsource·digital strategy·Digital Tools·Education·healthcare·metrics·Patients·Pharma·Pharmaceutical industry·regulations·social media metrics
by Krissy Goelz (@Krisgoelz)
There are two types of people in the world – those who play by the rules and those who bend or break them. When it comes to patient compliance, it’s not quite so clear cut. Even the most responsible by-the-book individuals have moments when they don’t heed doctor’s orders.
Why? Well, it’s human [...]
Tags:adherence·Compliance·Digital Tools·Education·Patients·tech tools·technology·tools
by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3)
What if there were a coordinated healthcare system in which teams of caregivers focused on sharing information and insights about their mutual patients and preventing health issues before they became critical?
Is it a utopian dream or perhaps the mission statement of an advocacy group? No – it’s the original vision developed two [...]
Tags:caremore·Health care·Health Care Reform·healthcare·patient needs·Patients·prevention·prevention models·US Health Care·user needs
by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz)
At this point, news editors must have a macro so they don’t have to type out a lede about how Apple products are breaking ground in another field. The latest is this: the iOS operating system’s security capabilities might just take telemedicine and put it in the average consumer’s pocket.
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Tags:Apple·Digital Tools·e-patients·FaceTime·health care providers·HIPPAA·patient needs·Patients·technology
by DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)
Thinking back just 20 years ago, there were a limited number of communication options: the phone call, the letter, the fax. A person’s digital habit – though not thought of in that way – was limited to television or radio, save for a few early adopters exploring computer technology. Today we have [...]
Tags:communication·digital habits·Digital Tools·engagement·Health care·health care providers·healthcare·information·Patients·Trends·user needs
by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3)
At this fall’s SXSH Social Health Unconference, which teamed itself with the E-Patient Connections conference, social media expert Shwen Gwee of Edelman gave us his “five P’s”, describing what he saw as emerging trends that sum up what patients want and expect of our social digital healthcare experience.
I thought the features he [...]
Tags:#sxsh·e-patient·epatient·informed patient·patient education·patient engagement·Patients·Shwen Gwee
by Briana Campbell (@MsMatchGirl)
Imagine the embarrassment of your sexual dysfunction being made public.
Imagine the worry, especially in this tenuous economy, of your employer finding out that you have a genetic condition that could grow to be debilitating.
Imagine trying to protect your family’s privacy only to discover that your child’s schoolmates have learned [...]
Tags:Electronic health record·electronic health records·electronic medical records·EMR·patient·Patients·privacy·safety·technology
by Sven Larsen
Are you ready to make a life-or-death decision?
Most decisions aren’t as dramatic as the one the main character faces in the movie Sophie’s Choice – deciding which of her children will live or die at the hand of Nazi prison guards – but how you approach health care privacy can be the difference [...]
Tags:Communities·community·Digital Tools·Education·Health care·healthcare·information·innovation·patient·Patients·privacy·technology·Trends·user needs
