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#OpenAPS is bearing big fruit, part 2: Quantified Self presentation in San Diego

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...

#OpenAPS is bearing big fruit, part 1: Dana Lewis’s speech at O’Reilly’s OSCON

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,...

Jody Schoger, co-founder of #BCSM breast cancer community, has passed

by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2016

We lost a great one today. Jody Schoger @JodyMS was one of the founders of #BCSM (breast cancer social media), the first patient community that started on Twitter and grew into a 501(c)(3) organization, bcsm.org. She passed on this morning, and Twitter is in tears....

Regina Holliday and the Walking Gallery are in AMA Journal of Ethics

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...

Sep 26 – Patient Summit on Diagnosis in Alexandria, VA

by Ileana Balcu | Sep 8, 2015

To all in the Washington/Baltimore/northern Virginia area (and elsewhere if you care to travel!): The patient committee of the Society for Improved Diagnosis in Medicine would like to invite you to our second annual Patient Summit on Diagnosis. The summit is part of...

On Making Patient Reviews of Physicians More Useful

by David Harlow | Jun 27, 2015

I recently hosted a Google Hangout on Air entitled Patient Reviews of Physicians: The Wisdom of the Crowd? (presented by The Harlow Group LLC in association with The Society for Participatory Medicine). I spoke with Niam Yaraghi (Center for Technology Innovation, The...