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What I’ve Learned So Far

It’s been a while since I posted, but I wanted to finish up my discussion of the last few years with a summary of what I’ve learned (sometimes I think stumbled into is a better description).

Learning that I was not alone in diabetes what probably the most profound, and yet damaging, thing. Recognizing that [...]

January 21st, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, caregiver, challenges, depression, diabetes, epatient, Mental Health, mhsm, stigma, support | 4 comments | 1 views

Relaunched! mostly…

After more than two years of being kindly hosted over at DiabetesBlogs.com, an offering of DiabetesDaily.com, I have moved to a new hosting service.  David Edleman over at Diabetes Daily offers free WordPress hosting to bloggers wanting to start a diabetes blog.  If you are thinking about starting one, it might be a good place [...]

January 15th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, depression, epatient, Mental Health, mhsm | 3 comments | 1 views

Morpheus Speaks

** Today, I am happy to introduce Dr. Ann Becker Shutte, better known as Morpheus.  Take it away, Ann!

Hi all–nice to virtually meet you. This is a first for me–sharing a guest post on a former client’s blog. However, as Scott discussed in his post about “Finding Morpheus,” the intersection of health care providers [...]

January 3rd, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, challenges, dblog, depression, diabetes, epatient, HCSM, Mental Health, mhsm, support | 11 comments | 689 views

Finding Morpheus

** those following along the last few months know who Morpheus refers to… for those who don’t it is how I refer to my psychologist in my blog posts describing my experiences in talk therapy

One of the main benefits of social media is that it allows people to connect, to draw on the joint [...]

December 26th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, caregiver, challenges, depression, dsma, epatient, family, HCSM, Mental Health, mhsm, S4PM | 5 comments | 535 views

Hey EHR Guys, Data is Data

Recently, during a discussion on EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems on the Society For Participatory Medicine’s mailing list, fellow Society member Casey Quinlan wrote:

We are so not even near that, given that 800+ EHRs have created 800+ new data silos, with no effective pipes laid between them yet. That’s the hackathon that’s desperately needed [...]

November 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Advocacy, challenges, dsma, EHR, epatient, HCSM, S4PM | 3 comments | 238 views
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