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...
by Dave deBronkart | Apr 24, 2017 |
SPM president Joe Ternullo, formerly of Partners Healthcare, sent this letter to our members this week. It will also be posted as an editorial on the Journal’s site. Our Journal, begun as a grass roots initiative at the Society’s formation, is a crown...
by Dave deBronkart | Apr 7, 2017 |
We’ve written often here about the BMJ’s leadership on not just listening to patients but looking at healthcare from the patient’s perspective. Their patient partnership campaign, launched in 2014, includes a patient advisory panel that works...
by Dave deBronkart | Mar 29, 2017 |
In November we posted about an extraordinary development: NEJM Data Analysis Challenge: can others create value by seeing researchers’ data? The project has come to fruition, and the big event (free) is next Monday-Tuesday. The question for us: What’s the impact...
by Dave deBronkart | Mar 27, 2017 |
An announcement today in Europe (press release below) brings a new angle to the copious US coverage of drug pricing, such as predatory pricing of the EpiPen and the smirking, seemingly sociopathic Martin Shkreli. For the drug described below, the Médecins du Monde...
by Dave deBronkart | Mar 20, 2017 |
Please cite this post as “by Dave deBronkart, Marilyn Mann and Peter Elias MD” or, on Twitter, “@ePatientDave, @MarilynMann & @PHEski.” Our blog software only allows listing one author but they provided 2/3 of the content. The medical news...
What My 90-Year-Old Mom Taught Me About the Future of AI In Health Care (WBUR)June 21, 2017
RIP: Larry Weed, MD the creator of the Problem-Oriented Medical RecordJune 19, 2017
“Amenable mortality”: how well 195 countries deliver existing cures (or don’t, so you die)June 13, 2017
SPM member & husband try to get care from one of the “best systems in the world.” #Fails.June 9, 2017
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