by e-Patient Dave | Dec 20, 2020 |
Hi Fellow SPM Members, As a follow up to the note from Danny Sands on Monday, I would like to provide you with an update on some of the exciting strategy work a group of board members and others undertook this summer and fall. Much has changed in the world at large...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2020 |
As regular readers know, our Society for Participatory Medicine has always been a strong advocate for the OpenNotes movement as a key enabler of patient power. As co-founder Dr. Danny Sands often says in his speeches, “How can patients participate if they...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 6, 2020 |
Guest post by SPM member Pam Ressler RN, MS of Stress Resources LLC. See bio at end. I have just finished co-teaching a month-long elective on the topic of pain to a group of rising 4th year medical students. In collaboratively planning the curriculum with my...
by e-Patient Dave | May 12, 2020 |
This morning the New England Journal of Medicine released the latest publication about OpenNotes. The news: an innovative pre-visit form created for the “OurNotes” study has been released before the study is completed, for other providers to use to improve...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 17, 2020 |
“The cure for anxiety is knowledge and preparation.” That line is from the hip and edgy (and smart) Stanford doc @ZDoggMD in the amazing live conversation on YouTube he had with his 12 year old daughter last Friday. Here are some resources. Society for...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 9, 2020 |
The long-awaited rules on data access have been published this morning from two key parts of the US Department of Health & Human Services. I’ll expand this post with more links as we digest what’s been offered and will unfold in the coming week. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 9, 2020 |
Six weeks ago we hosted the Patient/caregiver letter supporting proposed HHS rules on improving flow of our data. It’s a crowdsourced collection of stories of how patients suffered, were harmed, incurred costs or delays because their own health data wasn’t...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 28, 2020 |
Now this is patient-centered care. This may be the most wonderful participatory innovation I’ve seen since OpenNotes in 2012. This one’s completely different: OpenNotes is about patient access to the medical record, but this one invites patients to see...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 26, 2020 |
Many people are asking if they can add their stories or their signatures. Please do so in comments! We’ll copy signatures into the body of the post as time allows. We, the undersigned, are patients, family caregivers and advocates who are desperate to receive...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 11, 2020 |
Editor’s note: this guest post by SPM member and lymphoma survivor Brad Power (LinkedIn) shares his journey to our society and our #S4PM2019 conference last October. Members can submit guest posts to our blog (guidelines). Join SPM here. Here’s the introduction...
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