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Conferences, Vol. 4, 2012

HIMSS 2012 Highlights: What’s Hot

Central themes included Stage 1 and Stage 2 of meaningful use; ICD-10; mobile health; mHIMSS; business and clinical analytics; and patient-centered medical homes.

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Books & Literature, Vol. 3, 2011

Book Review: “A Symphony in the Brain”

This book offers a history and overview of neurofeedback, a type of biofeedback that aims to help patients control their brain activity.

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On the Web, Vol. 3, 2011

“Experience-Based Co-Design” Helps Providers Improve Care

The King’s Fund’s online toolkit for health care professionals promotes communication with patients to help design a better care experience.

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On the Web, Vol. 3, 2011

CMS Releases New Tools and Enhancements for Consumers and Providers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new online tool and improved others to empower consumers to make informed choices about their health care, and to help improve the quality of care in American health care institutions.

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On the Web, Vol. 3, 2011

Recommended Website: “Team Up for Health”

This is a good example of an online tool that helps primary care providers support patients in the self-management of their chronic conditions.

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Books & Literature, Vol. 3, 2011

Book Review: “Out of Her Mind”

The selections in this book can help validate people struggling with mental illness, and they show how the mental health industry still needs to become more patient centered.

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Conferences, Vol. 3, 2011

Doctors 2.0 & You

This European conference is dedicated to understanding the physician’s perspective on use of new technologies and how physicians use these technologies to collaborate with colleagues, patients, payers, government, and industry.

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Conferences, Vol. 3, 2011

CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Health was a featured community at the CHI conference, and several papers in particular stood out as being relevant to participatory medicine.

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Conferences, Vol. 3, 2011

Mobile Health 2011: What Really Works: A Patient POV

The author offers a patient’s perspective on the Stanford 2011 Mobile Health Conference held in May 2011.

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Books & Literature, Vol. 3, 2011

A Handbook for Patients Who Want to Change Health Care

A new report provides inspiration and guidance for activists who want to advance their aim of health care that recognizes and welcomes the participation of all players.

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On the Web, Vol. 3, 2011

SPM Members Weigh in on “Quality”

To read more comments on Dave deBronkart’s recent JoPM article about quality, visit the Society for Participatory Medicine’s public listserv archives.

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On the Web, Vol. 3, 2011

Recommended Post: “Time to Tango”

JoPM’s Editor in Chief recommends his former co editor’s blog post reflecting on why doctor-patient partnerships are still not as common as we would hope.

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On the Web, Vol. 3, 2011

Pew Internet Report on “Peer-to-peer Healthcare”

A new study published online by the Pew Internet Project will be of interest to health care professionals and laypeople who are curious about how social media have impacted health care.

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On the Web, Vol. 3, 2011

The Madness and Literature Network Website

This “On the Web” piece looks at a website that aims to foster an interdisciplinary, global dialogue about the issues raised by representations of madness in literature.

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Conferences, Vol. 2, 2010

Report on the “Reassembling Health Workshop: Exploring the Role of the Internet of Things”

This review reports on the workshop “Reassembling Health: exploring the role of the Internet of Things.” The aim of the workshop was to bring together professionals from different disciplines in order to envision future scenarios enabling patient participation, home-, mobile-, and self-care.

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On the Web, Vol. 2, 2010

American Medical News Explores Social Media’s Pitfalls and Opportunities for Physicians

A report on a recent American Medical News article that explores the special challenges posed by social media to physicians and medical students.

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On the Web, Vol. 2, 2010

Snapshot of People’s Engagement in Their Health Care

The “Snapshot of People’s Engagement in Their Health Care” (http://www.cfah.org/pdfs/CFAH_Snapshot_Abridged_2010.pdf) issued by the Center for Advancing Health (CFAH) provides an analysis of the actions people take (and don’t take) to benefit from the care available to them.

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On the Web, Vol. 2, 2010

Health News Review: Criteria for Evaluating Health News Reporting

The reviews and methodology presented on this site can help patients bring better quality information to the care relationship with their clinicians, and help all parties make better informed decisions.

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Conferences, Vol. 2, 2010

Health 2.0 Goes to Washington

A review of the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference held in June 2010.

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Conferences, Vol. 2, 2010

Health 2.0: What Works for Users

Abstract Citation: Torrey T. Health 2.0: what works for users. J Participat Med. 2010 Aug 16; 2:e2. Published: August 16, 2009. Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist. In my heart of hearts, I am a geek. Few know about my closet geekitude. Most people know me as a “professional patient,” [...]

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