Who should be included in health care conferences?
Patients, when represented as event stakeholders, generate richer conversation and wider dissemination of information on the social web, a new Medicine X study shows.
Bassam Kadry on the importance of amplifying the patient voice at Medicine X
When his mother fell gravely ill and had to be hospitalized several years ago, Bassam Kadry, MD, an anesthesiologist at Stanford, gained an entirely new perspective on the health-care system. [...]
The Medicine X Speaker Experience
Last year, Stanford Medicine X drew a diverse selection of speakers from around the world to present on a range of topics exploring how emerging technologies are advancing the practice of [...]
How to grow a healthy social network
While Brian Loew was involved in technology strategy at the Washington Post, the paper launched an online political forum. It was an early attempt to harness the dynamic and democratic potential [...]
The Collaborative Chronic Care Network: Rewriting the patient-doctor script
The Collaborative Chronic Care Network is a 5-year project funded by a high-risk, high-reward grant from the National Institutes of Health. It is a model of collaboration, centered around an [...]
