by e-Patient Dave | Nov 17, 2015
SPM Past President Michael Millenson reports that the Urban Institute has published a paper he co-authored with Bob Berenson:Â The Road to Making Patient-Centered Care Real: Policy Vehicles and Potholes. Michael writes: This is the most comprehensive look ever at the...
by Nancy Finn | Nov 4, 2015
According to a report in the BMJ Quality and Safety Journal, each year in the U.S. approximately 12 million adults or 1 out of 20 patients who seek outpatient medical care, are misdiagnosed in a way that could cause severe harm. These alarming statistics are further...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 4, 2015
As a social movement, we like to track the progress of the e-patient concept as it moves around the world. The e-patient message has been presented in at least fourteen countries that I know of. A few hours ago on Twitter, SPM member Matthew Holt, of the famous...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 2, 2015
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...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 7, 2015
From the Health 2.0 conference in Silicon Valley yesterday – the best tweet and slides EVER that illuminate the difference between medicine’s view of the problem and patients’ experience. SPM co-founder Susannah Fox took pictures of two excellent...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 22, 2015
We’ll update this post as time allows, but: SPM board member (and my fellow kidney cancer patient) Peggy Zuckerman will be on the NBC Nightly News tonight (9/21). Look up the time for your local channel. See also our post this month about her participation at...
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