e-Patient Dave, Author at SPM Blog

Emory study: “PHR resulted in significantly improved quality of care and use of services”

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2014

Long-time readers will recall a hallway conversation I had at a conference in 2011 with Silke von Esenwein PhD of Emory University’s Center for Behavioral Health Policy Studies, who was presenting a poster with preliminary results of a study in process. The post...

French Wikipedia now contains e-patient

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 11, 2014

Edited an hour later – I had the wrong French speaking e-patient! On Facebook today Christine Bienvenu @TinaBurger posted this news on my timeline: … with the help of a Swiss colleague who works at the Geneva University Hospitals we were able to get the...

Monthly introduction to e-Patients.net

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 1, 2014

This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn. Here’s how to become a Society member, individual or corporate. Our publications: This...

Patients-included Pharma? Disingenuous, and busted.

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 30, 2014

Prolog by e-Patient Dave: “Patients Included” was created by Lucien Engelen in the Netherlands for his initiative to have patients speak at all medical events. We in the patient community are taking it everywhere we can. But sometimes – as in this...

A neurosurgeon confronts his mortality: lessons in statistics and living while you can

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 25, 2014

Here’s a new “must read” for people with a grim prognosis, submitted by Twitter friend @Scanman (Vijay Sadasivam), from the Tamil region of India: How Long Have I Got Left?, by Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. Seven years ago that was my...