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Toward a New Science of Patient Engagement

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Winter sale on speech bookings: “Superb! Superb! No other word for it. A knockout.”

A quick update on two aspects of my speaking business:

  • As the post title suggests, the “consultative speaking” approach I use continues to bring great results. (Yes, that’s what the client said.)
  • I’m offering a winter sale because I have more capacity in my calendar than usual in the coming months: half off my usual speaking fee for any bookings with contract signed by March 31. Bring it on! Use the contact page.

Recent speeches have been to audiences of software developers in Amsterdam, innovators (Exponential Medicine, San Diego), and a medication security company customer event then their internal company meeting (TraceLink, Chicago and Boston), and though the audiences were very different, each got very strong response, because every speech is carefully tailored to the sponsor’s needs.

My topics have expanded beyond the traditional “Dave’s cancer story” and “about e-patients.” In addition to custom requests, topics now include
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The Polluted Stream of Health Care Information: Health News Review podcast

It ticks me off that the excellent site HealthNewsReview.org is going out of business due to lack of funding. More on that below. This independent website has for 12+ years been teaching us all how to watch out for BS in health news stories; they’re so important for informed health consumers that over on the e-patient blog I’ve written about them a dozen times.

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Book review: Augmented Health(care):
the end of the beginning, by Lucien Engelen

This book is so good I don’t know where to start. Just read it. (There’s an introductory 20% discount on the e-book below.)

Except – seriously – don’t read it if you demand a roadmap from here to the future. This is from the future. The image above, of a kid with a telescope, has been in the author’s office since I first met him, but until I was halfway through this book I didn’t understand why.

In Augmented Health(care) Dutch innovator Lucien Engelen of Radboud University Medical Center goes on a tour of the landscape that may strike the unfamiliar as manic or just plain nuts. Don’t trust that reaction – listen. He is unbound by the traditional view but absolutely bound to a future world where health – and care – are augmented such that things actually work.

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“Why We Revolt”: podcast episode 5 – why we should call for careful and kind care

Episode 5 is live! “Why We Revolt” – the patient’s side of the call for better care, with Victor Montori

Special request: What would you like to hear about, on my podcast?

I start this episode by asking for your feedback. Most important, one friend wrote saying he’s not looking for lecture-length radio shows – he wants quick tips, answers to questions. How about you? Are you loving it? Telling friends about it? If not, I’m missing my mark – let me know via the Contact page!

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“What will this cost?” Episode 4 of Power of the Patient, with Clear Health Costs

Episode 4 of the Power of the Patient podcast is live here.

Want better control over your health costs? Investigative journalism has finally come to healthcare, and it’s winning prizes bigtime.

My guest Jeanne Pinder is a former New York Times editor whose company Clear Health Costs has just won the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative journalism, for their contribution to the “Cracking the Code” series in New Orleans. [Read more…]

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Here’s Episode 3 of “Power of the Patient”: Meet Dr. Danny Sands!

I’ve just posted Episode 3 of my new podcast, “The Power of the Patient.” Click on over, and catch up on Episodes 1 and 2, if you’re new here. Here it is: What Everyone Should Know About Getting the Best Care, with Dr. Danny Sands. 

At last! Been waiting months to do this. The deservedly famous Dr. Danny Sands, one of the pioneers of patient partnerships and the whole e-patient movement, shares his perspective in two ways:
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