e-Patient Dave, Author at SPM Blog

Honoring the memory of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, ten years after his death

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 11, 2016

“Doc Tom” Ferguson, the source of our Society for Participatory Medicine, died unexpectedly ten years ago this week, April 14, 2006. In the coming days we’ll run a series of posts remembering his work and vision. Especially, we’re going to walk...

Sara Riggare: “The new kind of patients challenge healthcare”

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 4, 2016

SPM member Sara Riggare is a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and a member of the BMJ’s Patient Advisory Panel. She has Parkinson Disease, and is highly proactive in dealing with it. One thing some Parkinson patients do is non-contact boxing,...

How I became an e-patient: through practice, with coaching (using Lean on the patient side)

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 29, 2016

The next in our series of “How I became an e-patient” posts. Tyson Ortiz joined a few months ago, having been introduced to us by fellow Lean practitioner Mark Graban. His story weaves together two concurrent threads: learning about a new aspect of Lean,...

A hackathon for Open Access?? Check it out!

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 22, 2016

We’ve often written here about open access medical literature (freely available) vs “paywalled” journals. It’s a controversial subject, and this guest post is about an idea I’ve never heard of: a hackathon to explore the subject. (In the...

SPM survey results at HIMSS: “Patients want to be involved with their health information”

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 1, 2016

It’s time again for the gigantic (50,000 people) HIMSS trade show – the Health Information Management Systems Society, in Las Vegas this year. These new SPM slides (on Slideshare) will be shown in the Consumer Engagement zone, summarizing our two surveys...