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Pay people for their data – yes, or no?

By Casey Quinlan | November 16, 2018

SPM members Casey Quinlan (yes, yours truly) and Jan Oldenburg were part of a trinity of folks debating the idea of paying people for the data they contribute to the digital economy, in healthcare and in all other sectors. Here’s the full version of the...

Whither Cochrane, for e-patients and everyone else?

By Casey Quinlan | October 20, 2018

This will be the third, and last, in my short series on attending the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September of this year. In the first post, I talked about what that conference was like; in the second, I shared an overview of Cochrane as a global movement to...

The who, what, when, where, and why of Cochrane

By Casey Quinlan | October 13, 2018

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that yours truly got the chance to attend the annual Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September this year, thanks to a travel stipend from SPM, a #PatientsIncluded bursary from Cochrane UK, the hosts of the 2018...

#CochraneForAll + #BeyondTheRoom = #PatientsIncluded on blast

By Casey Quinlan | October 6, 2018

Red Hot Chilli Pipers at the Colloquium | image credit: Simon Williams Photography I won the big platinum #PatientsIncluded ring (much better than brass) this year with an opportunity to attend the Cochrane Colloquium, the global health science and health services...

#SPM2018 speaker @MightyCasey gets piped in at Cochrane in Edinburgh

By e-Patient Dave and Casey Quinlan | September 17, 2018

For updates, follow Casey’s tweets on the #CochraneForAll hashtag – tweets by her and tweets tagging her. Casey will be a speaker at #SPM2018 on Oct 17, in a session with Ivan Handler of the Insightamation blog – “Thoughts and provocations on...

THCB picks up post by Josh Rubin – “We The Patients” is a winner!

By Casey Quinlan | August 27, 2018

From SPM Lifetime Member Josh Rubin: Fellow S4PMers, I am elated to report that on Monday, August 20, 2018, The Health Care Blog (THCB) re-posted my S4PM guest blog post titled, “Biomedical Knowledge Must Be Mobilized to Save Lives, Not Privatized in the...

Biomedical Knowledge Must Be Mobilized to Save Lives, Not Privatized in the “Last Mile”

By Casey Quinlan | August 5, 2018

Guest post by SPM Lifetime Member Joshua C. Rubin, JD, MBA, MPH, MPP Last week, Facebook’s unprecedented stock price collapse triggered by concerns over personal data privacy, as well as same-day commentary regarding GlaxoSmithKline’s investment in 23andMe to gain...

Curiosity Got These Cats Their Health Data – from GetMyHealthData

By Casey Quinlan | March 23, 2016

Our friends over at GetMyHealthData have put up a terrific post breaking down exactly how/why all people can access their health data. Get YOUR data – it’s yours! Here’s the whole GIF-rich party. Cats have nine lives to figure out how to get their...

Pharma TV ads: Film at 11

By Casey Quinlan | March 8, 2016

SPM members Randi Oster of Help Me Health and Casey Quinlan of Mighty Casey Media made up two thirds of a three woman panel, “Patient Leaders Want To Kill Pharma TV Ads, Right Now,” at the 2016 ePharma Summit in New York last week (February 29 through...

We’re all in this together

By Casey Quinlan | September 9, 2015

A guest post from member Jeffrey Halbstein-Harris – this is a small slice of a longer piece he used as the basis for a speaking engagement. This is a call to consumers: my brothers and sisters who rely on healthcare and its infrastructure’s support throughout...