http://www.tedeytan.com e-Health. Patient empowerment. Washington, DC. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/03/15/5038 This is for you, Susannah Fox – This week’s photograph is of Regina Holliday and Cindy Throop who helped organize a flash mob in Dupont Circle. Regina’s shown myself and others of the power of the artists’s brush in creating change. I wouldn’t have envisioned this a year ago for health care. The scene on Tuesday [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/03/13/5036 http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/03/12/5029 Health Care Law Blog: AHLA Connections: Legal Implications of Health Care Social Media – A (dare I say) beautiful article / reference written by Bob Coffield about health care and social media. A few things relevant to my situation that are worth repeating/thinking about in other organizations: The presence of an internal social network (at Kaiser Permanente, [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/03/10/5024 Love wins: Gay marriage in Washington DC / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com. The State of Virginia’s decision to reinstate discrimination was immediately overshadowed by the District of Columbia’s decision to end it last week, creating lots of excitement in this territory-not-state part of the United States. I really like the way the author of the [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/03/08/5005 This week’s photograph is of the “famous infamous @epatientdave” and Kate Christensen, MD, who’s the medical director of kp.org, Kaiser Permanente’s web site for members. They are giving a presentation at HIMSS10 about involving patients and families, not just in their health care, but in the design of the healthcare system itself. I used this photograph [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/03/06/4933 Thanks to the organizers of HIMSS10 and the attendees for hosting Holly Potter and I in a presentation around Kaiser Permanente’s work to support “Total Health” using the tools of health information technology and social networking. Several people asked for the slides after the event, so here they are in graphical form. Lots of people prefer the [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/03/04/4919 This week’s photograph was taken right after the snowpocalypse, and I am using it to add an image to the idea of “Total Health,” which is part of the presentation that Holly Potter and I are giving at HIMSS next week. I like taking photographs like this because they show what the success of a health [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/27/4865 http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/23/4846 http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/23/4783 http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/22/4813 Atul Gawande, MD and Jack Cochran, MD, NGA meeting, Washington, DC A few weeks ago, Jack Cochran, CEO of The Permanente Federation (the company I work for) mentioned that he would be speaking alongside Atul Gawande, MD, in DC, and that I should try to come. I didn’t realize fully that he was speaking [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/22/4806 http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/22/4801 http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/22/4792 I knew this had to be this week’s photograph the minute I saw it (and cross posted it in various places…). It is what it looks like, a beautifully created couch made out of snow, in Dupont Circle, Washington, DC. This is just the tip of the iceberg reminder of what comes from a community [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/19/4787 http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/19/4718 Feder JL. Cell-Phone Medicine Brings Care To Patients In Developing Nations [Internet]. Health Aff 2010 Feb;29(2):259-263 Kahn JG, Yang JS, Kahn JS. ‘Mobile’ Health Needs And Opportunities In Developing Countries [Internet]. Health Aff 2010 Feb;29(2):252-258 As I alluded to in my post yesterday, this month’s issue of Health Affairs is devoted to E-Health in [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/19/4742 In Mexico, it’s illegal for patients to access their own medical records, and 9.1 percent of Mexicans have an Internet connection at home. 80 percent of them have at least one cell phone. Conditions like this don’t stifle innovation, they ignite it, and it’s one of the several reasons I think mHealth (“the use of wireless [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/18/4731 This week’s photograph shows a diverse group of people enjoying a recreational snowball fight in specially built snow-bunkers, at Malcolm X Park, in Washington, DC. In between them, is, I believe, the “black diamond” sled run, or at least it looked black diamond to me. Elsewhere in the park there is a green run and [...]]]> http://www.tedeytan.com/2010/02/12/4685