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Patient Engagement – Careful What You Wish For

Patient Engagement – Careful What You Wish For

I’m often asked about my take on patient engagement. These buzzwords are losing their meaning. Frankly, I find myself at a loss to answer, even though I say patient engagement is my passion. Engagement from whose point of view? A person engaged in their own...

Virtual Town Hall Meeting May 15 7-8 pm ET

When: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm ET (the third Tuesday of odd-numbered months). Where: Online with two options for participation: Uberconference:   https://www.uberconference.com/DrDannySands   (no PIN necessary) or Dial-in 617-221-4750 Who: open...

SPM in Real Life: Spring ’18

NEW MEMBERS: Spring ’18 Brief bios/plugs for new members (extracted from the Introduce Yourself Connect Community) Katherine Infantes-Cordova, a bilingual patient liaison passionate about improving the patient experience, is eager to take part in eliminating...

Letter to CMS from SPM

Inspired by comments made during HIMSS18, Danny Sands MD and Vera Rulon, chair of the S4PM policy committee wrote Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on behalf of the Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM). They applaud HHS...

SPM Travel Scholarships for Patients and Caregivers!

Did you know that the Society has a Travel Scholarship Fund available for to help eligible patients and caregivers offset travel costs to as they share their participatory medical journey and show how they are apart of the solution and not the problem? Enabling...