SPM past board member Michael Millenson has an important new commissioned essay in the BMJ spelling out some parameters of collaborative health, which might as well have been written as participatory medicine. Happily, they made it open access so patients can read it – and download the PDF to share with their clinicians!

And health policy people, and hospital management, etc – DO IT!

See also editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee’s accompanying editorial, Are you ready for “collaborative health”?

Thanks to the BMJ for commissioning this important piece, and to Millenson for his decades (literally) of work advocating for what we now call participatory medicine.

e-Patient Dave

"e-Patient Dave" deBronkart is a co-founder of our Society and past board chair. He survived a near-fatal kidney cancer by being an e-patient long before he'd heard the word. Today he evangelizes participatory medicine, patient empowerment, and patient data access as a keynote speaker and at epatientdave.com.