by e-Patient Dave | Aug 7, 2017 |
“To help inform patients of the best scientific knowledge…” “…as future physicians, they realize that part of their contract with society is to meet patients where they are and to help inform patients of the best of scientific knowledge about...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2017 |
I’m taking the extraordinary step of rerunning, verbatim, an entire post from 2014 about this important development. Why? Because tomorrow an update is coming, and to fully appreciate the news, you need to appreciate the background. Here’s the original,...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Jul 22, 2017 |
Recently I connected a patient expert in insurance and provider billing with a patient at the tail end of chemo struggling with huge unexpected bills. I introduced a cancer survivor with web design skills to a patient advocate setting up a new blog. I linked a parent...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 7, 2017 |
We in the Society for Participatory Medicine are in many stages of awakening to our potential as active participants in the health system. Some have a particular focus on a disease or a technology; many of us come to it through our own experience (good or bad) as a...
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 e-Patient Dave | Jun 22, 2016 |
Regular followers of this blog know for years we’ve been hot on the trail of the never-ending search for truth, justice, and please some reliable advice on medical matters. Tonight a google alert alerted us to the next round, the next attempt: a column by the...
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...
by Casey Quinlan | Mar 23, 2016 |
Our friends over at GetMyHealthData have put up a terrific post breaking down exactly how/why all people can access their health data. Get YOUR data – it’s yours! Here’s the whole GIF-rich party. Cats have nine lives to figure out how to get their...
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...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 17, 2015 |
Big news: a multi-foundation $10 million grant will spread OpenNotes access to fifty million more patients! Nearly 20% of America will have full access to their providers’ visit notes, so they can review them from anywhere! Regular readers know we’ve...
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Health Partner or Care Partner?August 28, 2017
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