by Casey Quinlan | Mar 23, 2016
Our friends over at GetMyHealthData have put up a terrific post breaking down exactly how/why all people can access their health data. Get YOUR data – it’s yours! Here’s the whole GIF-rich party. Cats have nine lives to figure out how to get their...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 22, 2016
We’ve often written here about open access medical literature (freely available) vs “paywalled” journals. It’s a controversial subject, and this guest post is about an idea I’ve never heard of: a hackathon to explore the subject. (In the...
by Casey Quinlan | Mar 8, 2016
SPM members Randi Oster of Help Me Health and Casey Quinlan of Mighty Casey Media made up two thirds of a three woman panel, “Patient Leaders Want To Kill Pharma TV Ads, Right Now,” at the 2016 ePharma Summit in New York last week (February 29 through...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2016
At 10 ET today (Feb 25) Donna will be a guest at the White House Precision Medicine Initiative, with several other members of our Society. Watch it on livestream. See also our post on the PMI event a year ago by then-president Nick Dawson. I’m thrilled to announce...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 24, 2016
This is a hoot. I say this as someone who first blogged in 2008 about this process. On Tuesday March 1, Mayo Clinic will be streaming video of a colonoscopy, live on Periscope, in a broadcast they’re calling The #ScopeScope. Lee Aase, head of the Mayo Clinic Social...
by Danny Sands, MD | Feb 2, 2016
A fundamental precept of participatory medicine is that health care should not be a spectator sport—it’s best practiced in a participatory manner. This requires engagement from both the patient and the clinician. Yet the typical behavior of health encounters is not...
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