Society for Participatory Medicine

What is Participatory Medicine?

Participatory Medicine is a movement in which patients and health professionals actively collaborate and encourage one another as full partners in healthcare.

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The Society:
WHO WE ARE +
WHAT WE DO

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FROM THE JOURNAL

Empowering Patients and Caregivers to Use Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision for Wound Monitoring: Nonrandomized, Single-Arm Feasibility Study

Background: Chronic wounds affect 1-2% of the global population, and pose significant health and quality-of-life challenges for patients and caregivers. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and co …

From Internet to Artificial Intelligence (Al) Bots: Symbiotic Evolutions of Digital Technologies and e-Patients

This paper will view the rise of the e-patient, who is “equipped, enabled, empowered and engaged” through the lens of the evolution of successive digital technology innovations, each building on its p …

FROM THE BLOG

Learning Health Systems Empower Every American to Actually Make America Healthy Again Together, Part 2

Published 5/29/2025 in SPM Blog

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of Josh Rubin’s post. The first was published on May 23, 2025 Building Upon a Powerful Foundation of Patient Empowerment In part 1 of this post I paraphrased Dr. Casey... read more ❯

OUR MANIFESTO

Participatory Medicine Manifesto

Our revolutionary manifesto was created by the members of the Society to help people better understand what participatory medicine is really all about. Once you see the common-sense principles of participatory medicine, you'll get it too!

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