Tag Archives: Patients

28 Dec/11

Year In Review: Charity Tilleman-Dick at ePatient Connections

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...
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20 Dec/11

Waiting to Exhale

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...
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13 Dec/11

Questions and Answers

by Russ Ward (@russcward) What does it feel like to have a heart attack? Whats the cure for muscle soreness post-workout? What one daily habit has the most positive effect on your health? These...
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28 Nov/11

Medication Adherence Myths and How Tech Tools Can Help

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, its not quite so clear...
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22 Nov/11

Integrated Care: The Real Deal

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...
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21 Nov/11

FaceTime and HIPAA and Doctors – Oh My!

by Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz) At this point, news editors must have a macro so they dont have to type out a lede about how Apple products are breaking ground in another field. The latest is...
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17 Nov/11

Addressing the Digital Habits of Consumers and Health Care Practitioners

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 persons digital habit though not...
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15 Nov/11

The 5 P’s of E-Patient Expectations

by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3) At this falls SXSH Social Health Unconference, which teamed itself with the E-Patient Connections conference, social media expert Shwen Gwee of Edelman gave us his...
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9 Nov/11

Security and EMR: How Afraid Should We Be?

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...
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7 Nov/11

Sophies Choice: Life or Privacy?

by Sven Larsen Are you ready to make a life-or-death decision? Most decisions arent as dramatic as the one the main character faces in the movie Sophies Choice - deciding which of her children...
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1 Nov/11

Does This Look Familiar?

by Jason Brandt (@jasondmg3) I dont understand any of this stuff. Who has the time to really use this stuff anyway? No real business can afford to have employees wasting their time on this...
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26 Oct/11

Why Patents Matter to Patients

by Russ Ward (@russcward) Browse through the business press, and you wont have to search long before you find articles about pharma, patents and a whole lot of drama. From a patient perspective,...
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