As many of my readers know, I am now regularly blogging on radar.
There, I have written a post called epatients: the hackers of the healthcare world.
It is pretty much a tour of how anyone who is already in the technorati, can become an e-patient. It heavily features the work that I have been doing with the Cautious Patient Foundation, which focuses very much on the information that every patient should know about how to prevent medical errors in the healthcare system.
But it also talks about the core of the e-patient ethos, getting access to data and leveraging it well. Being engaged and involved in your own healthcare. All of these are part of the Cautious Patient concept, and the e-patient concept. It has been very popular with the e-patient community.
Tomorrow, USA Today will be hosting the first version of the classic traveling medical blog summary Grand Rounds at healthypov.usatoday.com
The fact that USA Today is hosting Grand Rounds is awesome. I have just discovered that my e-patient blog post will be one of the ones covered in the first edition of Grand Rounds hosted at USA Today. I am truly honored and wish I had spent more time removing commas from the article, which are, the, bane, of, my, writing, style.
Seriously, it is an important shift when mainstream media starts to pay better attention to medbloggers, the best of whom produce content that is tremendously valuable for our healthcare system. Even below average writers have something to add, but then… you already know that… because you are reading this!
Enjoy,
-FT