liked the article: wonder how doctor and patient social interactions will change with social networking software.

the cellphone and beeper have changed patient expectations in terms of how fast doctors can call back: but the number of calls is increasing as treatment plans become more complicated in an aging population. Many things happen and docs just can't keep up with connecting each thought with a team that is increasingly becoming fragmented. this is a error laden system, with room for more errors as things become more wired.

Anthropologically, can networks be integrated to reduce errors as an outcome? would this be the first in a series of studies to demonstrate that clinical sousveillance is key to protecting personal determination from an increasingly rationed healthcare center?

could we find similar human currents such as Ebay to create a better health care model that places the patient at the center, reducing the false positives of unnecessary testing and iatrogenic illnesses?

i emailed this to the Kerry orkut site; but i do not think anyone is paying attension: i guess one still has to roll up ones sleves and politic within the locale. ;-)

but seriously, if i posted on my site an essay about medical errors, and then invited comments about the issue, could one then use it as data for a medical journal? how does one find out the number of hits, and then the issue of follow up: can a local blog that persons connect with be used to to measure an outcome.

stef

trying to write a blog entry with a track back to joels link via this blog entry, titled "Understanding the social network towards medication error reduction" i did some tag changes that liz Lawley recomended, and walla, i crashed the system.

i can't get the system to link back: it says, server inactive to zephoria.org:80

what did i do wrong: well, its good that we are not live with patient data...;-)