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...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 24, 2019 |
SPM member Brenda Denzler had Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), which was followed by years of intractable symptoms that her doctors couldn’t diagnose – all their tests kept saying she was “fine.” “But I live with this body,” she...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 19, 2019 |
I’ve just discovered something I’ve long hoped to see: a training module to teach medical students about e-patients and how to interact with them! It’s a paper in the journal Medical Teacher: “But Dr Google said…” – Training medical students how to...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 1, 2019 |
This is a cross-post from my personal blog. The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. I’ll copy/paste here from the conference’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 1, 2019 |
On June 4, 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, giving women equal voting rights. (It was ratified by ¾ of the states, just in time for the 1920 elections.) Activists for patient power (and partnership) have often pointed to parallels of our movement with women...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2019 |
What if you hired a financial manager to handle your money – a trusted professional, like that guy above – then discovered they didn’t know what they were doing, and your records were a mess? How would you feel? That’s pretty much what happened...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 10, 2019 |
It’s a big anniversary, this spring – this week, even. Ten years ago the whole issue of personal health data exploded into the headlines. It was about something I wrote here, not having a clue it was any kind of a big thing, but it ended up on the front...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 5, 2019 |
SPM member Jeanne Pinder has spent years crusading for price transparency with her startup ClearHealthCosts. She’s formed partnerships with WHYY in Philadelphia, been on CBS News, won awards for investigative journalism with NOLA.com and Fox 8’s...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 27, 2019 |
This is a guest post by SPM member, heart patient and author Elizabeth Rankin, BScN. Some background: one of the most-discussed topics on our blog is shared decision-making (SDM), with pages and pages of posts (75 in the category), dating back to 2010’s Salzburg...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 21, 2019 |
The famous TED Talks site TED.com is the holy grail of many evangelists. Aside from the extraordinary visibility it gives your message, and aside from the validation of your message (the site’s tagline is “Ideas worth spreading”), it means...
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