by Nancy Finn | Jun 27, 2013
Decades ago, most people died at home. Today health care technology including various surgical procedures, the use of feeding tubes, ventilators, CPR, dialysis, and blood transfusions, has put patients and physicians in the precarious position of having to choose...
by Nancy Finn | Jun 13, 2013
A recent report by CMS detailed statistics on how many health providers had actually received Meaningful Use (MU) incentive payments. As of March, 2013, 160,890 eligible professionals had received Medicare incentive payments and 83,765 professionals had received...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jun 6, 2013
This guest post is from SPM member Erin Moore @ekeeleymoore and is reproduced from her blog, 66 Roses, which is dedicated to finding a cure for cystic fibrosis. There was a healthcare conference last fall that I desperately wanted to go to. The conference was for...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 3, 2013
Updated 6/4 in response to Tony’s comment, described below. I’m speaking today at the fifth annual Patient & Family Centered Care conference, hosted by PFCC Partners in Long Beach, California. (They’re not related to the similarly named IPFCC.)...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 2, 2013
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 David Harlow | May 20, 2013
Going public recently with her story of a prophylactic double mastectomy after testing positive for BRCA1 (a gene linked to breast cancer) via an op-ed piece in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie is clearly trying to get the message out that radical choices must...
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