by Danny van Leeuwen | May 27, 2018 |
Thanks to support from SPM Travel Fund I attended Regina Holliday’s Cinderblocks Conference in Grantsville, MD. Still pound-for-pound the best conference going. Several days of local and national presentations about health, public health, and advocacy. Small,... by Ileana Balcu | Jun 19, 2017 |
Lawrence “Larry” Weed (born December 1923, died June 3, 2017) was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records.... 
by Ileana Balcu | Feb 11, 2017 |
This is a post by SPM Board Member John Hoben – Business Development Director at Bio-Optronics. Hoben’s passion is reconfiguring medical industrial complex assets and transactions from sickness response to true preventive delivery. This entails focusing on... by Ileana Balcu | Sep 29, 2016 |
Beautiful and comprehensive blog post from Regina Holliday about different types of patient advocates, the evolution of the patient as speaker, consumer, policy-igniter and her own work.... by e-Patient Dave | Sep 22, 2016 |
In July we invited you to vote on a large group of patient activists, to select finalists in Health 2.0 conference’s tenth annual conference: Health 2.0: first conference to offer Patient Activist awards. Vote! What a gathering this will be: travel expenses for... by e-Patient Dave | Aug 8, 2016 |
We’d love to start a list of other patient-authored papers and posters – let us know in the comments! We know of Dana M. Lewis & Scott Leibrand’s poster about #OpenAPS in June – who else?? We’ve written before about e-patient Sean... by Ileana Balcu | Jul 30, 2016 |
In the Spring of 2016 I had the opportunity to teach the course New Media and Health Communication for an undergraduate class at The College of New Jersey. The class, designed by Dr. Yifeng Hu, already included an introduction to participatory medicine and patient... by e-Patient Dave | Jun 7, 2016 |
I’ve known Eric Dishman for about five years, because we’re both kidney cancer patients. I’ve known that he’s a really sharp thinker, and a high-ranking executive at Intel, deeply interested in and involved in their work in healthcare. May 3... by e-Patient Dave | May 23, 2016 |
A truly significant moment in the history of medicine happened last Wednesday. I say that after attending almost 500 conferences and policy meetings in the past seven years, and I don’t say it lightly. Something many people think is impossible was presented live... by e-Patient Dave | May 20, 2016 |
For some reason we haven’t written much about this here – our only post is from SPM Past President Nick Dawson 15 months ago – but this is such a big deal. Here’s an 11 minute introductory video on this – I won’t say more,...
Facebook patient privacy issue – important #BCSM Twitter chat TONIGHT, July 16 9pm ETJuly 15, 2018
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Medicare Holds Out Promise of Health Record Access RevolutionJune 27, 2018
SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rulesJune 27, 2018
Request: Harnessing the patient voice from the ward to the boardroomJune 19, 2018
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