by Dave deBronkart | Aug 7, 2017 |
“To help inform patients of the best scientific knowledge…” “…as future physicians, they realize that part of their contract with society is to meet patients where they are and to help inform patients of the best of scientific knowledge about...
by Dave deBronkart | Aug 3, 2017 |
I’m taking the extraordinary step of rerunning, verbatim, an entire post from 2014 about this important development. Why? Because tomorrow an update is coming, and to fully appreciate the news, you need to appreciate the background. Here’s the original,...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 12, 2017 |
On Thursday, at 5pm UK time / noon ET / 9 am Pacific, the BMJ will host a tweetchat under their #BMJDebate hashtag, adding to the ongoing debate about how and when patients can be compensated for their contributions to improving healthcare. Please read editor Tessa...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 7, 2017 |
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...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 5, 2017 |
Short notice, but if you can join, please do – if you can’t make it, the archive will be published. EUPATI (European Patients’ Academy) has a 90 minute webinar today, July 5, at 11 am ET, 8 am PT, 5 pm Central Europe. To register click the graphic or...
by Dave deBronkart | Jun 21, 2017 |
As his TEDMED profile says, Dr. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD, co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He’s a long-time believer in the power of well managed information to help create well managed care. Many members of SPM got...
by Dave deBronkart | Jun 13, 2017 |
What would you think if your fire department had expensive, snazzy fire trucks that failed to show up when needed? What would you think if a neighboring town had less fancy equipment but was incredibly dependable about using what it had? That’s pretty much the...
by Dave deBronkart | Jun 9, 2017 |
Sunnie Southern is an avid activist for better care, a proactive patient (very responsible), a long-time member of our Society for Participatory Medicine, and a good friend with an irrepressibly bright disposition. As I often say, “I’ve never seen anyone...
by Dave deBronkart | Jun 7, 2017 |
We in the Society for Participatory Medicine are in many stages of awakening to our potential as active participants in the health system. Some have a particular focus on a disease or a technology; many of us come to it through our own experience (good or bad) as a...
by Dave deBronkart | 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...
Experts at Meeting in Quebec Ask “Who Chooses How Much of What?”August 18, 2017
WikiProject Medicine three years on: “converting clinicians to active digital contributors”August 7, 2017
WikiProject Medicine: med students join in producing high quality Wikipedia articles. (You can, too.)August 3, 2017
Lived Experience + Expertise = ValueJuly 22, 2017
#BMJDebate tweetchat: “terms of engagement” for patient voices, noon Thursday ETJuly 12, 2017
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