by Danny van Leeuwen | Mar 28, 2018
Introduction SPM member, Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats, introduces a new blog sponsored by the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support-Learning Network:Â Patient Expertise: Sharing and informing choices to connect research and clinical experience. Patient expertise...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 20, 2017
No surprise to e-patients: a new study in the journal Surgery found that when patients facing a liver transplant connected with each other, they liked it. Read the article about it in MobiHealthNews or the original paper, if you can get it. Here’s an extract...
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...
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