by e-Patient Dave | May 2, 2017 |
This post by SPM member MaryAnne Sterling is a thrilling sequel to our ongoing posts about CCCC (an organizational member of our Society) and its support for e-patients at their annual summit. MaryAnne is CEO of Sterling Health IT Consulting. She’s a healthcare...
by Liz Salmi | Jan 11, 2017 |
Intro note by e-Patient Dave: What a great development! CCCC is an organizational member of our Society, and last year we blogged CCCC conference announces inaugural class of palliative care e-patients, and now, even better news: e-patient participation is getting...
by e-Patient Dave | May 4, 2016 |
Guest post by SPM member Liz Salmi of CCCC, an organizational member and supporter of our Society for Participatory Medicine. Note also (at bottom) that this event provides a model for other organizations to follow: patient participation is enabled by a foundation...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 19, 2016 |
The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) is inviting e-Patients to apply for a scholarship to their 8th Annual Summit in Newport Beach, California, on May 12-13, 2016. The deadline to submit an application is March 10, 2016. Learn more and apply here....
by Sue Woods | Oct 29, 2018 |
On October 17th, the Society enjoyed their 2nd conference in Boston. Filling a larger room than last year, attendees – in person and virtual – enjoyed an impressive lineup of speakers. The passion in the room was palpable. Much more to come on that. A...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 21, 2016 |
We’ve often written here about palliative care and end of life. (The two are not the same: you can have palliative care without having decided the end is near.) They’re, in a sense, the ultimate expression of patient-centered care, forcing the...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 2, 2014 |
We often say here that clinicians should welcome activated patients. Hand in glove with that, we must also say: Yo, patients: get activated! Know what works, and act on it! Huzzah to Swedish SPM member and Parkinson’s patient Sara Riggare for this, on Facebook,...
by Nancy Finn | Jun 27, 2013 |
Decades ago, most people died at home. Today health care technology including various surgical procedures, the use of feeding tubes, ventilators, CPR, dialysis, and blood transfusions, has put patients and physicians in the precarious position of having to choose...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 22, 2011 |
One of the highlights of 2011 for me was the introduction in May (see our post) of the Engagement Behavior Framework by SPM member (and JoPM founding co-editor) Jesse Gruman. She and her team methodically identified 43 behaviors to be done by an engaged patient or...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Jan 9, 2011 |
From the editors of our society’s journal, the Journal of Participatory Medicine: As we close out Volume 2 of JoPM, we’re pleased to look back at how the journal has grown. We published a total of 23 articles in 2010. We published our first two podcasts....
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