by e-Patient Dave | May 5, 2012
Afternoon additions: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments. As I just told a friend on Facebook: “How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell...
by e-Patient Dave | May 4, 2012
Doctoral student Mohamed Chekli met SPM member Matthew Katz MD (radiologist), and asked for help with a survey: Would you please put me in touch with people in your network who are offering personal health records (or patient portals) to individuals dealing with...
by e-Patient Dave | May 2, 2012
[Reminder: The place to register an official comment to the government is this page on Regulations.gov. Monday May 7 is the last day.] ____________ New, 11pm ET on May 2: See Regina Holliday’s addition at bottom. Evening addition: In a comment below, SPM policy...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 9, 2012
This guest post by SPM member Scott Strange originally appeared on his blog, Strangely Diabetic. Scott will host this week’s #s4pm Tweetchat on Wednesday, April 11 at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific (username @Strangely_t1) on #diabetes. It seems that every day we read...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 1, 2012
This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn. Here’s how to become a Society member, individual or corporate. Our publications: This blog...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 28, 2012
Guest blogger, e-patient and SPM member Nancy Finn takes on the tough topic of how to reduce the cost of health care delivery. With all the talk this week about Obamacare and whether or not the Supreme Court will declare the law constitutional, partially...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Mar 17, 2012
I’m a little confused… I’m not sure where the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the government’s right to interfere with the doctor/patient relationship. Nowhere in this historic document could I find anything about the government’s right to...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 13, 2012
Guest blogger Susan Woods, a physician and SPM board member, urges patients to help shape PCORI’s draft National Priorities for Research and initial Research Agenda, and offers her own comments here. The public comment period ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 15....
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 11, 2012
This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn. Here’s how to become a Society member, individual or corporate. Our publications: This blog...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 13, 2012
We encourage our readers to attend this February 27 event and help PCORI shape its agenda for clinical effectiveness research. You can find a link to their draft priorities by clicking to this page. Registration for the forum is required; please see the link in the...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 12, 2012
It’s funny how things turn out sometimes. Lately I’ve written a lot here about e-patients taking an active role at a new level in healthcare, not just engaging in their care, but actually defining what it should be. Well, wouldn’t you know it, life...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 1, 2012
This guest post from Katie Matlack (reposted from the free site Software Advice) launches a new section of e-Patients.net: “PM Tech.” This special branch of e-patient resources is gaining importance as smartphones and tablets become ever more mainstream....
by Sarah Greene | Jan 31, 2012
NOTE: We’re happy to welcome back Sarah Greene, one of the founding members in 2009 of SPM and its journal. She left a while ago for London, where she’s continued her work at the leading edge of thought about medical knowledge. Sarah is ahead of most of...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jan 19, 2012
Guest blogger Peter Elias, MD, a family physician, raises some interesting questions about the nature of patient empowerment and explores its implications regarding patient-physician collaboration. This piece originally appeared on the author’s blog,...
by Gilles Frydman | Jan 12, 2012
Note: Although currently not a member of the SPM, I have been involved, since its inception, with Tom Ferguson and others, in the creation of the e-patients white paper . I am also one of the co-founders of the SPM and one of the volunteers who created the...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 1, 2012
Follow us on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn! Here’s how to become a member, individual or corporate. Our publications: Our blog is e-patients.net. Subscribe via RSS or email, tweets etc. Our open-access journal is the Journal of Participatory...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 27, 2011
Why does this blog use the word “damn” so often? A search produces a whopping 38 hits, such as: Fools! Damn fools! And Medical Science (Right, Santa??) Atlantic: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science “Gimme my damn data!” The stage is being set to enable...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Dec 12, 2011
There’s no stopping an idea whose time has come. SPM member Nancy Finn (@NFinn8421), in the process of her own odyssey as a health care thinker, had an epiphany that strongly echoes the principles of the growing P4 Medicine movement (“predictive,...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 8, 2011
Here’s a question which inspired me today, received via email from Christie Silbajoris, director of NC Health Info: My library is rethinking its provision of services to the public. We’ve got a history of going beyond what the average academic health sciences...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 7, 2011
As often happens, a Susannah Fox post has led to lingering questions. This time I’ve figured out what I want to say.:-) Last week, in a side note on her World AIDS Day post, she inserted this: … Let’s review the basic math of health services delivery in...
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