by Carla Berg | Aug 18, 2017 |
You Are (Almost) There Have you ever been to a big trade event in a hot sector like healthcare or tech? If you are a member of S4PM, perhaps it was at CES or HIMSS or Health 2.0 or a MedX or a TedMed event. If such a scene is familiar, then perhaps a few...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 12, 2017 |
On Thursday, at 5pm UK time / noon ET / 9 am Pacific, the BMJ will host a tweetchat under their #BMJDebate hashtag, adding to the ongoing debate about how and when patients can be compensated for their contributions to improving healthcare. Please read editor Tessa...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 7, 2017 |
SPM past board member Michael Millenson has an important new commissioned essay in the BMJ spelling out some parameters of collaborative health, which might as well have been written as participatory medicine. Happily, they made it open access so patients can read it...
by Dave deBronkart | Jul 5, 2017 |
Short notice, but if you can join, please do – if you can’t make it, the archive will be published. EUPATI (European Patients’ Academy) has a 90 minute webinar today, July 5, at 11 am ET, 8 am PT, 5 pm Central Europe. To register click the graphic or...
by Dave deBronkart | Jun 9, 2017 |
Sunnie Southern is an avid activist for better care, a proactive patient (very responsible), a long-time member of our Society for Participatory Medicine, and a good friend with an irrepressibly bright disposition. As I often say, “I’ve never seen anyone...
by Dave deBronkart | 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 Nancy Finn | Jun 2, 2017 |
Guest post by SPM member Vanessa Carter. See bio at end. In many countries globally, the e-Patient revolution has raised many significant questions about the role of empowered patients in an integrated health system, particularly with expanding access to Information...
by Nancy Finn | May 10, 2017 |
The practice of medicine is shifting from episodic patient care to care focused on addressing many broad-based, unique, sometimes esoteric health conditions. Fueling this transition is a new focus on patient reported outcomes and health data registries that aggregate...
by Dave deBronkart | May 2, 2017 |
This post by SPM member MaryAnne Sterling is a thrilling sequel to our ongoing posts about CCCC (an organizational member of our Society) and its support for e-patients at their annual summit. MaryAnne is CEO of Sterling Health IT Consulting. She’s a healthcare...
by Susan Woods | Apr 26, 2017 |
The Society of Participatory Medicine is currently searching for a Newsletter Editor. Is that you?? The SPM Newsletter is an important communication mechanism. The goal of the Newsletter is to inform members about current events, provide updates on SPM activities, and...
Experts Meeting in Quebec Ask “Who Chooses How Much of What?”August 18, 2017
WikiProject Medicine three years on: “converting clinicians to active digital contributors”August 7, 2017
WikiProject Medicine: med students join in producing high quality Wikipedia articles. (You can, too.)August 3, 2017
Lived Experience + Expertise = ValueJuly 22, 2017
#BMJDebate tweetchat: “terms of engagement” for patient voices, noon Thursday ETJuly 12, 2017
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