by Sarah Krüg | Apr 7, 2017 |
The Society for Participatory Medicine is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the American College of Radiology to present an important topic in healthcare at the next Learning Exchange, which will take place on April 19, 2017, 2-3PM EST. Join us as...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Mar 23, 2017 |
I’m an old hippie [left]. I’ve lived in many houses and on a farm (commune?) with other people. Regularly we heard, “I agreed to what? No I didn’t.” “Since when is that a rule?” I, and then my wife and I, developed skill in...
by Dave deBronkart | Mar 2, 2017 |
Do not go look this up. I’ll post the answer tomorrow. We on this blog know Dr. Tom Delbanco as, among other things, the “father” of OpenNotes, along with “co-parent” Jan Walker, RN MBA. (For a history lesson, Tom’s also the lead...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Feb 20, 2017 |
In 2009, along with several physicians, patients and health activists, I helped form the Society for Participatory Medicine, a nonprofit promoting “a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in...
by Dave deBronkart | Feb 9, 2017 |
Now THIS is what we call #PatientsIncluded. Twenty patient leaders will be fully funded to attend a new “MasterLab Leadership Institute” in the San Francisco bay area March 31-April 2. Click here (or the graphic above) to learn more and apply by next...
by Liz Salmi | Jan 11, 2017 |
Intro note by e-Patient Dave: What a great development! CCCC is an organizational member of our Society, and last year we blogged CCCC conference announces inaugural class of palliative care e-patients, and now, even better news: e-patient participation is getting...
by Sarah Krüg | Dec 30, 2016 |
This time of the year is often filled with reflection and a retrospective review of our lives with a focus on lifestyle changes we hope to attain in the New Year. It’s a time where regrets can be erased by future aspirations. Many of us set resolutions, which I...
by Sarah Krüg | Nov 7, 2016 |
We are each individually advancing the participatory medicine movement in our day-to-day lives and interfaces with healthcare and/or our work. Understanding the work we are conducting within our individual silos can help us learn from one another, allow us to build...
by Nancy Finn | Nov 2, 2016 |
Antibiotics and similar drugs, called antimicrobial agents, have been used successfully for the last 70 years to treat patients who have infectious diseases. However, these drugs have been used so widely and for so long, that the infectious organisms the antibiotics...
by Sarah Krüg | Oct 21, 2016 |
Spearheaded by Vice President Joseph Biden, the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force was created to double the rate of progress in cancer research and treatment, striving to accelerate what could be achieved in ten years in just five. Earlier this week, Vice...
Lived Experience + Expertise = ValueJuly 22, 2017
#BMJDebate tweetchat: “terms of engagement” for patient voices, noon Thursday ETJuly 12, 2017
Millenson in BMJ: When “patient centred” is no longer enough: the challenge of collaborative healthJuly 7, 2017
Webinar today, 11am ET: Increasing patient involvement in assessing new treatmentsJuly 5, 2017
What My 90-Year-Old Mom Taught Me About the Future of AI In Health Care (WBUR)June 21, 2017
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