By e-Patient Dave | April 5, 2019
SPM member Jeanne Pinder has spent years crusading for price transparency with her startup ClearHealthCosts. She’s formed partnerships with WHYY in Philadelphia, been on CBS News, won awards for investigative journalism with NOLA.com and Fox 8’s... 
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 | June 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 | February 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 | September 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 | September 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 | August 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 | July 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 | June 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...
A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 4: The Human Aspect of CareJuly 19, 2019
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