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How e-Patients Plan for End of Life Decisions

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...

Are Physicians Truly Engaging with their Patients?

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...

Erin Moore: Are Patients a Distraction? I think not…

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...

Monthly Introduction to e-Patients.net

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...

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