Jul 28 2011: Hi Ragna, in my opinion Patient Empowerment comes with a kind of responsability. Social Media can be very cruel in killing reputations. Accusing your doctor or even worse threaten her/him is not the direction that strikes my mind when it comes to improve healthcare. As sad as it is, some people even need to be taught that one should not beat up healthcare professionals.
Jul 27 2011: @ragna great idea to integrate patient empowerment in general education, I guess it could contribute to responsible citizenship to empower yourself in a good way.
@ePatient Dave who should we cast for our Movie apart from you and Oprah, but seriously I think a movie could lead to a quantum leap in patient empowerment. Let's elaborate on this one.
Jul 27 2011: I totally agree that they are the ones that have to lead a new era in Healthcare, but I hesitate to believe that the current SM will do the trick. In my country pop. 16.5M Only 30k are using Twitter on a weekly basis, that's less than 0.2% No way this group is in any way representative for the entire population.
Nevertheless amoung the 30k are beautifull and very inspiring examples of Patient Empowerment, what puzzles me is HOW can we raise the Participation Levels and by doing so the Impact of Empowered Patients
Jul 27 2011: Hi Jody I have a feeling that the mainstream patient does not find her/his way in the new media, so a breakthrough can only be found via the traditional media. Maybe we could give Oprah a call?
Jul 27 2011: Yes it's true TEDxMaastricht was amazing, but the question is HOW to reach out to the avarage patient, HOW can we truely empower the crowd
Jul 27 2011: My question would be HOW can we raise the numbers in empowered patients, the SM using, well informed patients seem to be a very small tribe
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@ePatient Dave who should we cast for our Movie apart from you and Oprah, but seriously I think a movie could lead to a quantum leap in patient empowerment. Let's elaborate on this one.
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Nevertheless amoung the 30k are beautifull and very inspiring examples of Patient Empowerment, what puzzles me is HOW can we raise the Participation Levels and by doing so the Impact of Empowered Patients
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