Nancy Finn’s motto is that “healthcare is not a spectator sport, it is a participatory sport.” In her book, e-Patients Live Longer, The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology, released late last year, she goes on to state:
“(Patients) should participate in decision making with their physicians, ask questions, and be willing to invest time and effort in understanding their conditions. Physicians, for their part, must be willing to share information, with their…
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I’ve often read about doctors whose perspective changed drastically once they were diagnosed with a serious illness of their own. Suddenly, being a patient and just “doing what you’re told” didn’t look so easy…
I also heard fellow D-blogger and advocate Scott Johnson talk recently about a doctor who experienced patients connecting with one another for the first time — and how cathartic and life-changing it was for these people with a rare illness to…
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We’ve had four great years running our wildly successful crowdsourcing competition, the DiabetesMine Design Challenge.
Today, we at DiabetesMine are proud to announce a new program in our continued efforts to “push the envelope” on diabetes innovation:
The DiabetesMine™ PATIENT VOICES CONTEST!!
We’re asking YOU, the empowered PWDs (people with diabetes) to tell us about your most pressing design needs.
All you have to do is create a 2-3 minute video testimonial about the…
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Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the first-of-its kind e-Patient Bootcamp program held at the offices of Edelman PR in New York City. The event was hosted by the venerable leader of the e-Patient movement, Dave deBronkart. e-Patient Dave, as he’s more commonly known, has an incredibly moving story: after being diagnosed with “terminal” metastasized kidney cancer, he managed to beat the odds by using the internet and his own stubborn persistence to…
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It’s D-Blog Week this week, an online “rally” of sorts in which D-bloggers near and far write their personal responses to prompts created by the unflappable Karen from Bittersweet Diabetic. Today is Letter Writing Day:
“In February the Wego Blog Carnival asked participants to write letters to their condition. You can write a letter to diabetes if you’d like, but we can also take it one step further. How about writing a letter…
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