by e-Patient Dave | Oct 5, 2018 |
Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here.... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 5, 2018 |
This is so exasperating. For years we at the Society for Participatory Medicine have been among the leaders of the movement for patients to have access to their medical records, in EMRs and everywhere. We’ve blogged repeatedly (and advocated in DC) about patient... 
by Carla Berg | Feb 14, 2018 |
Editor’s Note: This is a first installment (we hope) in a series about an all-too-real-life medical drama experienced by a former SPM board member and longtime sci-tech journalist Carla Berg-Nelson (aka “Carla B.”). There is much to learn here about being an... by Nancy Finn | Oct 24, 2017 |
Appropriate patient care revolves around a team of individuals that includes the patient, a variety of clinicians and other providers, caretakers and patient advocates. The members of this team must collaborate to ensure that the best possible decisions are made on... 
by Linda Stotsky | Sep 27, 2017 |
I’m known in social media for my role as @EMRAnswers. Most people don’t know the personal and family pain that makes me know how important this is. Here it is. (That’s me above, sharing my story at the Walking Gallery meetup at HIMSS in 2015 –... 
by Danny van Leeuwen | Aug 28, 2017 |
Two stories for you: More than 20 years ago my oldest son was training to do development aid work in the bush of Zimbabwe. As part of his team training, he invited me to come give a talk about health with his team. I was a nurse and a paramedic at the time. I did the... 
by Ileana Balcu | Feb 11, 2017 |
This is a post by SPM Board Member John Hoben – Business Development Director at Bio-Optronics. Hoben’s passion is reconfiguring medical industrial complex assets and transactions from sickness response to true preventive delivery. This entails focusing on... by Ileana Balcu | Jan 10, 2017 |
Member Angela Lundberg’s blog article was just published for RheumatoidArthritis.net. It discusses the high out-of-pocket costs of health insurance for people who already have insurance. Health Insurance & RA: Dangerously Uncovered Besides the benefits she... 
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 23, 2016 |
Coming from Romania 15 years ago, Thanksgiving was not a big thing for me. I didn’t quite grasp the holiday. My husband cooked and celebrated, and I helped and observed it in a detached way. 11 years ago, it was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I was 22 weeks... by Ileana Balcu | Sep 29, 2016 |
Beautiful and comprehensive blog post from Regina Holliday about different types of patient advocates, the evolution of the patient as speaker, consumer, policy-igniter and her own work....
Whither Cochrane, for e-patients and everyone else?October 20, 2018
At #SPM2018, Ivan Handler (with @MightyCasey) Wants to Put the Care Back in HealthcareOctober 15, 2018
The who, what, when, where, and why of CochraneOctober 13, 2018
#SPM2018 speaker preview – Brennen Hodge: “Health is the New Wealth”October 12, 2018
#SPM2018 speaker preview – Jason Bobe: “The future of medicine begins with the patient”October 10, 2018
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