Discharge day

Here's Ben and I waiting for his last physio session as an inpatient. Instead of complaining through every exercise, he laughed hysterically, giddy at the thought he was going home.

I'm taking a much-needed break for the next two weeks, but our amazing BLOOM designer Sara will be here to moderate your comments.

In September I'm speaking on a panel about how social media can be used to see through the eyes of the patient/family. Today I read that the Mayo Clinic had just opened up its very own Center for Social Media. Here, its medical director talks about how he believes social media will revolutionize health care by providing a new platform for patient voices and better connecting patients and professionals.

What do you think?

I believe there are many ways we could be using the BLOOM blog to better empower parents raising kids with special needs. In addition to having experts answer your questions, we could pose practical questions to our parent and professional readers and generate, through comments, your collective wisdom on a topic.

Ideas?