Patient Opinion news

Site: http://www.patientopinion.org.uk
Case study: http://www.headshift.com/archives/002893.cfm

Introduction

Patient Opinion is a revolutionary exercise in public feedback on health services that takes free-form patient stories about their experiences and creates structured data that can inform service improvement. A non-profit company founded by Dr. Paul Hodgkin to help patients make informed choices based on what other patients are saying, Patient Opinion is grounded in new thinking about public participation.

Coverage

Times Online, Feb 06 PDF version

NHS Health Informatics Community, Feb 06 PDF version

E-Health Insider feature, Feb 06 PDF version

Resources

NHS document 'Choice Matters' published May 2006 on the development of patient choice, featuring the site on page 10.

Word in the blogosphere

UK Catalyst Awards
Alfie over at Moblog alerted me to the UK Catalyst Awards, which are in their words, awards for: “inspiring stories of people who help their community by using social technology in new and exciting ways.” It’s a government-sponsored initiative and it’s great to see that these innovative grassroots sites and communities, and the shortlist shows plenty of really good sites. Some of them use the power of the web bring people together - such as School of Everything or Slivers of Time - whether it’

UK Catalyst Awards - Shortlist announced
One of the most enjoyable things I’ve been involved with this year has been helping to design and launch the UK Catalyst Awards. Led by the excellent Dan McQuillan of Make Your Mark, alongside Colman Getty, Polecat and Unltd, and supported by NESTA and BERR, the awards (inspired by the Council on Social Action) set out to discover leading examples of social technology being used for positive change in communities. I hope you’ll agree that the shorlist is incredibly inspiring and that you’ll

Rise of Opinion leaders
I stumbled across the Pharma 2.0 blog recently after getting a Google News alert about a posting there. Bunny's post is about the influence that certain key people (patient opinion leaders) have on others. In her post, she explainsThese are individuals who are well-versed on their disease and are influencing thousands of others with their writing. I’m not saying that KOL’s (Key Opinion Leaders, usually refers to physicians) are on the wane, but industry should start paying more attention to th

Here are your winners
It took a couple of days, but the list of winners from this week’s New Statesman awards has finally emerged. As predicted, MySociety didn’t go home empty-handed, with recognition for their FOI site, What Do They Know? And it’s good to see Patient Opinion getting recognition in the Community Activism category - their approach to patient feedback, and how it can help improve NHS services, is not going unnoticed. But it’s a shock to see the BBC taking home the Democracy In Action trophy for a cam

Personal Democracy Forum 2008, NYC
Permalink 02 Jul 2008 Hurrah! Health data latest: the lunatics have taken over the asylum On closer inspection, the Power of Information work is gathering pace and getting quite exciting. Nine years ago UpMyStreet founder Stef Magdalinski berated a baffled audience of civil servants at the GC99 Expo, telling them to “Give us your data” (Tom recalls him saying give us your f*cking data, but I don’t). Now Richard Allan and others are getting to grips with the Power of Information work