by e-Patient Dave | Dec 4, 2012
A guest post by SPM member Marge Benham-Hutchins, PhD, RN, an assistant professor of nursing informatics at Texas Woman’s University. This is an email she sent me today, citing an online discussion of the appalling death in the Health Affairs column...
by David Harlow | Nov 30, 2012
The latest news story to examine the issue of patient access to implantable cardiac defibrillator data (a variation on the theme of “gimme my damn data”) is an in-depth, Page One Wall Street Journal story featuring Society for Participatory Medicine...
by Ileana Balcu | Nov 29, 2012
Our members Hugo Campos and Amanda Hubbard featured in this great piece in the Wall Street Journal Heart Gadgets Test Privacy-Law Limits http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203937004578078820874744076.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories Very extensive and well...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 18, 2012
Guest blogger Neel Shah, MD is the Executive Director of Costs of Care and a chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology based at Harvard Medical School. As a presidential election looms and the American economy struggles to recover, the spiraling costs of healthcare...
by Susannah Fox | Sep 5, 2012
This is a request for help finding people who have had bad experiences with online health resources. Let me first say that the internet is often a positive force in people’s lives. My own organization’s research can paint a rather rosy picture: teens are...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 14, 2012
This listserv exchange between new Society for Participatory Medicine members is a nice example of how “newbie” e-patients often come to us with decades of experience and well-honed (and well-blogged) philosophies of what healthcare should be and can be....
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