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Engaging Patients in Safety: Naughty or Nice?

by | Dec 12, 2014

This post by long-time SPM member Michael Millenson first appeared on the EngagingPatients.org blog. We’re re-posting it here to both put it on the membership’s radar, and to invite comments on Michael’s POV that “As much as we can argue that...

#epatient – Are Millennials Born That Way?

by | Nov 17, 2014

Reposted from the Mighty Mouth blog Most of the people I meet in my voyages ’round healthcare system transformation, grassroots edition, arrived at the portal of #epatient via a trip through the medical-industrial complex. Either they, or someone they cared for, wound...

WHO in Geneva – SPM in the house!

by | Oct 30, 2014

SPM member Casey Quinlan (who’s posting this) was invited to attend an event at the WHO in Geneva. This post originally appeared on her Mighty Casey Media blog, and is reposted here in its entirety by SPM request. Guess who got invited to WHO? No, really....
To Be, or Not to Be, a B Corp

To Be, or Not to Be, a B Corp

by | Sep 4, 2014

Preface (later) by e-Patient Dave – Casey and I were discussing that one of the obstacles impeding changing in medicine is that by law, corporate officers have to serve their shareholders first, i.e. make money before they get into any do-gooder stuff. The...

Keeping Patients in the Dark: SIIPC14

by | Jul 2, 2014

  Several SPM members were in attendance at the recent SIIPC14 conference at Dartmouth, where the ongoing work on healthcare system transformation  has been the source of much great content on e-patients.net over the years. Casey Quinlan – yes, yours truly...

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