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This Feb. 13, 2013 edition focuses on the following themes: the Health Affairs Briefing Reminder: New Era Of Patient Engagement held on Feb. 6 in Washington, D.C. and subsequently released edition of Health Affairs — and — the upcoming  Rare Disease Day: Disorders Without Borders to be held worldwide on Feb. 28. Included within these focus areas are topics such as health literacy, drug development, healthcare costs, patient-centered care, and deliberations on what makes one a patient. Health Affairs is the New Shirtless Dancing Guy Nick Dawson Dawson attended the HA briefing in advance of the journal's February edition dedicated to all things ePatient. He calls attention to the fact that no "actual patients" were on the panel, while appreciating what HA has done with the issue. Listen in to audio from the HA briefing . ‘Patient Activation’: Real Paradigm Shift or Updated Jargon? Jacob Molyneux A nice summary of key issues from the HA briefing, which Molyn

Health Affairs held a briefing this week in Washington, D.C. focused on the content of the magazine's February 2013 edition, New Era of Patient Engagement . The briefing boasted a notable list of policy wonks as speakers including Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, US Department of Health and Human Services; David Colby, Vice President of Public Policy, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and Joe Selby, Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Yet no one on the panel bore the simple title of ePatient. The event's twitter stream ( tagged #HA_Patients ) hit a few highlights, and a podcast was released after the briefing. These tech alternatives to actually reading the HA edition will have to suffice for most patients due to an all too common problem—journal access. In the medical and academic journal market, one must pay to read. An individual subscription to HA, delivered online, is $143 per year. A print subscription is $158, and the Premium su

The Afternoon Nap Society will once again be hosting HealthCare SocialMedia Review , the blog carnival for those interested in health care social media.  The Feb. 13, 2013 edition will focus on the following themes: the Health Affairs Briefing Reminder: New Era Of Patient Engagement  held on Feb. 6 in Washington, D.C. and subsequently released edition of Health Affairs  — and — the upcoming Rare Disease Day: Disorders Without Borders to be held worldwide on Feb. 28. Included within these focus areas are topics such as health literacy, drug development, healthcare costs, patient-centered care, and deliberations on what makes one a patient (are we truly ALL patients?). Email submissions should include the following information: Email Subject Line: HealthCare SocialMedia Review Blog Title: Blog URL: Post Headline: Permanent link to post: Name, Username, Nickname, or Pseudonym: Description or brief excerpt: Deadline for submission is Tuesday, Feb. 12 at NOON. Email submissions to t