An e-patient is a health consumer who participates fully in their own medical care, primarily by gathering information about medical conditions that impact them and their families, using the Internet and other digital tools. [1]

“Tom Ferguson coined the term e-patients to describe individuals who are equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged in their health and health care decisions. He envisioned health care as an equal partnership between e-patients and health professionals and systems that support them.

…[When patients] participate more actively in the process of medical care, we can create a new healthcare system with higher quality services, better outcomes, lower costs, fewer medical mistakes, and happier, healthier patients.

2018年2月26日 · Doctors need to enable rather than obstruct well informed patients, says e-patient Sara Riggare, as they can help reinvent healthcare for long term conditions.

2019年3月19日 · Moving forward to 2019, leading healthcare institutions now define an ePatient as a health consumer who uses the internet to gather information about a medical condition of particular interest to them, researches physicians and specialists and checks their online scores, and uses electronic communication tools (including Web 2.0 tools) in coping...

2023年9月1日 · In a recent interview with Dave deBronkart, known as e-Patient Dave, we revisited the possibilities of this new approach aimed at empowering, engaging, and equipping e-patients in the context of the pandemic.

2010年11月3日 · In the spirit of e-mail, e-commerce, e-books, and e-prescribing, it’s time to get familiar with the term “e-patients.” Only this time, the “e” doesn’t mean electronic. It stands for patients who are “equipped,” “enabled,” “empowered,” and “engaged” with information.

2004年5月5日 · A number of insightful studies of the emerging culture of e-patients have been published, mostly in the social science literature. But they are rarely cited in mainstream medical journals, and their conclusions are unknown to most clinicians.

2013年10月21日 · Electronic health records benefits may be clear for providers – cutting redundancy of tests, coordinating care during discharges, etc. — but these benefits also will ultimately accrue to patients in the form of better health.

In a recent interview with Dave deBronkart, known as e-Patient Dave, we revisited the possibilities of this new approach aimed at empowering, engaging, and equipping e-patients in the context of the pandemic. This interview with deBronkart was originally used for a …