by Casey Quinlan | Oct 20, 2018 |
This will be the third, and last, in my short series on attending the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September of this year. In the first post, I talked about what that conference was like; in the second, I shared an overview of Cochrane as a global movement to... 
by Casey Quinlan | Oct 13, 2018 |
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that yours truly got the chance to attend the annual Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September this year, thanks to a travel stipend from SPM, a #PatientsIncluded bursary from Cochrane UK, the hosts of the 2018... 
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 3, 2018 |
Here’s the latest in a series of posts about the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here. (Our #SPM2018 series has more about the speakers and... 
by John Novack | Sep 24, 2018 |
Here’s the latest in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. And see this blog’s #SPM2018 series for more about, or by, the speakers and... 
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 17, 2018 |
For updates, follow Casey’s tweets on the #CochraneForAll hashtag – tweets by her and tweets tagging her. Casey will be a speaker at #SPM2018 on Oct 17, in a session with Ivan Handler of the Insightamation blog – “Thoughts and provocations on... 
by John Novack | Sep 7, 2018 |
The Society for Participatory Medicine advocates for transforming the culture of care, so we watch for signs that the culture is changing. A newly released peer-reviewed article hints at progress: formally introducing patient perspectives into not just the practice of... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2018 |
TONIGHT: 9 pm Eastern time. #BCSM Twitter chat on the latest Facebook privacy issue. This time the data leaked is from a patient group. FB says it’s a nothingburger. What do you think? Facebook has a record of privacy leaks. The poster shown here (click to... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 27, 2018 |
This is the first of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The second is by Michael Millenson, who did the lion’s share of this work, as noted below. Our Society’s Advocacy and Policy chair Vera Rulon... 
by Sarah Krüg | May 23, 2018 |
We are in the midst of a loneliness epidemic that affects millions, whether you’re married, single or somewhere in between, young or old, an urban dweller or live in a remote village. Loneliness lurks in our shadows, yet unlike smoking or obesity isn’t socially... 
by e-Patient Dave | May 14, 2018 |
As regular readers know, this blog has long been friends with The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), especially because of its world-leading Patient Partnership campaign including the Patient Advisory Panel, which includes several SPM members and has an...
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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