e-Patient Dave, Author at SPM Blog

OpenNotes on stage at live Washington Post event

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 15, 2016

Tuesday morning in Washington, the Post hosted a 2-1/2 hour event on improving healthcare, with numerous speakers on several topics. Of special interest to SPM is this 26 minute segment that includes OpenNotes, which we’ve often written about. OpenNotes director...

Has your doctor ever talked to you like this Oliver Wendell Holmes quote?

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 14, 2016

A large part of our work here at the Society for Participatory Medicine is about changing culture of healthcare. In such times, I’d useful to look at our roots. Here’s an attitude tidbit from 1871 that our friends at the BMJ published sixteen years ago....

OpenNotes study in BMJ Quality & Safety finds patient-doctor “relational benefits”

by e-Patient Dave | May 24, 2016

As regular readers know, we’ve written many times about OpenNotes, the project funded by Robert Wood Johnson that blew the doors off of beliefs that bad things happen when patients see their charts. (We blogged about the original results in 2012.) Now a new...

#OpenAPS is bearing big fruit, part 2: Quantified Self presentation in San Diego

by e-Patient Dave | May 23, 2016

A truly significant moment in the history of medicine happened last Wednesday. I say that after attending almost 500 conferences and policy meetings in the past seven years, and I don’t say it lightly. Something many people think is impossible was presented live...

#OpenAPS is bearing big fruit, part 1: Dana Lewis’s speech at O’Reilly’s OSCON

by e-Patient Dave | May 20, 2016

For some reason we haven’t written much about this here – our only post is from SPM Past President Nick Dawson 15 months ago – but this is such a big deal. Here’s an 11 minute introductory video on this – I won’t say more,...