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Featured Podcast, Multimedia, Narratives, Podcasts, Vol. 3, 2011

Hacking Health: Designing for and Understanding My Health

Juhan Sonin | April 26, 2011

When confronted with a shockingly high number during a routine cholesterol check at work, the author realized that he knew nothing about his own health metrics. The experience led him to develop a tool called HealthCard, which he explains in this presentation.

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Commentary, Featured Podcast, Podcasts, Vol. 2, 2010

Participatory Evidence: Opportunities and Threats

Peter Frishauf, Richard W. Smith, Jessie Gruman, and Lawrence W. Green | August 9, 2010

In our new world of instant information exchange and empowered patients, how are clinicians and empowered patients challenging traditional ways to collect, evaluate, and publish evidence?

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Commentary, Featured Podcast, Podcasts, Vol. 2, 2010

Peer Review and Reputation Systems: A Discussion

Peter Frishauf, Richard W. Smith, Liz Wager, and Alejandro Jadad | January 15, 2010

Can we trust traditional peer review? If it’s broken, how might we fix it?

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Participatory Medicine is a model of cooperative health care that seeks to achieve active involvement by patients, professionals, caregivers, and others across the continuum of care on all issues related to an individual's health. Participatory medicine is an ethical approach to care that also holds promise to improve outcomes, reduce medical errors, increase patient satisfaction and improve the cost of care. Learn more...

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Raw data now! Open science! Sign Ben Goldacre’s #AllTrials petition--e-Patient Dave June 17, 2013
Last year during TEDMED 2012, in “The cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine”: Ben Goldacre on the missing data, we covered the vitally important news that a lot of medical research has gone missing, leading to a severely corrupted foundation for evidence-based medicine. If you haven’t read that quick post with 6 minute video interview, please […]
Are Physicians Truly Engaging with their Patients?--Nancy Finn June 13, 2013
A recent report by CMS detailed statistics on how many health providers had actually received Meaningful Use (MU) incentive payments. As of March, 2013, 160,890 eligible professionals had received Medicare incentive payments and 83,765 professionals had received Medicaid incentive payments. While these numbers seem impressive, the question we have to ask is […]

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