by Nancy Finn | Jun 1, 2016
Computer Crime is the misuse of a computer or associated electronic networking system in order to commit illegal and unlawful acts. Computer crimes range from the illegal use of the internet to the unlawful accessing of information stored in computer systems. In...
by Nancy Finn | May 5, 2016
When a patient receives a diagnosis of cancer it is life changing. Even after treatment and assurance that you are in remission, the cancer threat is never far away. Every time you go for a screening, the fear returns to haunt that maybe this time they will find...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 21, 2016
We’ve often written here about palliative care and end of life. (The two are not the same: you can have palliative care without having decided the end is near.) They’re, in a sense, the ultimate expression of patient-centered care, forcing the...
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...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 21, 2016
Our Society for Participatory Medicine is a partner with EngagingPatients.org. Founded in 2013, Engaging Patients is particularly focused on the communication aspects of participatory medicine. They asked us to share this announcement. EngagingPatients.org is pleased...
by Nancy Finn | Jan 12, 2016
In 2016, mHealth technology will occupy center stage in transforming clinical care and clinical research. Smartphone-linked wearable sensors will turn science fiction into reality as these mobile diagnostic tools provide the in depth information that enables ...
by David Harlow | Jan 12, 2016
A long time ago (in internet years), the original HIPAA regulations were promulgated. (The final Privacy Rule was published in 2000.) They’ve been tweaked and updated over the years, most notably in the “mega-reg” promulgated a few years back in...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 1, 2016
One sign of a movement’s progress is when the establishment takes notice. This one’s a biggie: Regina Holliday’s Walking Gallery of Healthcare (Facebook) is in the January 16 edition of the AMA Journal of Ethics. A five page article! Click the image...
by Nancy Finn | Dec 23, 2015
I was at dinner with friends recently when I noticed that my right thumb was red, swollen and painful. One of my friends is a biochemist and instructed me to immediately soak the finger in hot water. I continued our social evening dipping my right thumb in and out...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 18, 2015
This blog welcomes guest posts from SPM members on relevant topics. One of our Society’s newest members, Susan Cournoyer, is a tech industry analyst, and is familiar with the concept of systems that are well designed or weakly designed, e.g. with a “single...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 14, 2015
Funny how a complex cultural discussion can get triggered by something as simple as a coffee mug. In our work to change healthcare’s beliefs about the patient-clinician relationship, nothing has had greater impact in less time than our post two weeks ago The...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 9, 2015
Guest post by SPM member Katherine Kelly Leon @KatherineKLeon of the famous “SCAD sisters,” spotlighted in this 2011 post. This is about the “Your Googling” mug many of us discussed last week. Coffee mugs are like totems, spiritual items that...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 5, 2015
You can’t make this stuff up. One of our most-commented posts ever was Monday’s The truth about that “your Googling and my medical degree” mug, about the coffee mug that went viral on Facebook this week. Well, some docs saw it and emailed, asking where to...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 1, 2015
Today’s Washington Post has a terrific, carefully researched, precise article – on the front page of the Health & Science section – about the reality of a good patient-clinician partnership: Does your doctor listen when you talk? by Suzanne...
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 30, 2015
I can’t tell you how many people have flung this Facebook item at me since last night, starting with my wife. :-) It’s already approaching 25,000 shares. (Update: at 11am ET on Dec 1 it’s up to 73,000 shares in 48 hours. I’d say it’s...
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