Facebook, I’m out. Your irresponsibility with patient groups has gone too far.
I have stopped participating on Facebook. I’m leaving my account live (so that my post about why I’m leaving is visible), but everything will be shut off as much as possible, and the rest will be...
View ArticleGetting ornery on social media: What I’m doing in 2019, episode 2
Sunday night I blogged this: I haven’t been blogging nearly as much as I did five years ago, largely because my early blogging was all about trying to figure out “what the heck is up with the American...
View ArticleKnowledge is leaky now. Farewell to centralized control; hello to rapid...
Yesterday I posted about discovering a really good year-old video about something I’ve often blogged: the importance of letting people see the prices of what they buy, in healthcare. The process by...
View ArticleAcceptance talks of the five Platinum Fellows
Last week I blogged about the Mayo Clinic social media fellowships. Here’s a picture of the sheet. Today Mayo posted the videos of everyone’s talk on their blog. I want to especially highlight the...
View ArticleGetting your health data: BlueButton/ShareCare tweetchat Thursday
A press release published Tuesday begins: Sharecare and Blue Button Host Twitter Chat to Help Consumers Take Control of Their Personal Health Information Gaining control of your health and your...
View ArticleI’m 5! (Well, ePatientDave.com is…)
By Andrew Eick on Flicker. Licensed for re-use with attribution. https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreweick/2971677419/ It is a time of celebration. Since creating this domain five years ago (2009!) I’ve...
View ArticleNotes for @BCPSQC #QualityChat Twitter chat
For Wednesday’s “#qualitychat” Twitter chat here are a few notes. Background page on this tweetchat series @BCPSQC is British Columbia Patient Safety and Quality Council – I spoke there in February....
View ArticleA patient to be inducted into the Healthcare Internet Hall of Fame
Click to visit this year’s inductee page As an activist for the patient movement – a social change movement – I look for and often cite signs of real change in the establishment, documenting that it’s...
View ArticleI’m 7! (Well, epatientdave.com is)
Birthday cake photo by pinterest user dnkchavez10 This is an updated clone of this 2014 post. It is a time of celebration! Since creating this domain seven years ago today (2009!) I’ve done: 242 323...
View ArticleRice bytes: best way I’ve seen to understand giga, mega, peta and such
I love anything that makes it easier for people to know what’s going on. Case in point: this tweet yesterday from Twitter friend David Grayson @Sasanof, from the IBM Watson Summit in New Zealand. You...
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