by Dave deBronkart | Jun 21, 2017 |
As his TEDMED profile says, Dr. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD, co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He’s a long-time believer in the power of well managed information to help create well managed care. Many members of SPM got...
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 Dave deBronkart | Jan 9, 2017 |
The much-quoted line “Patients are the most under-used resource in healthcare” was first uttered in the 1970s by Warner Slack, MD, when he was a young doctor in Madison, Wisconsin. It’s seen many versions and incarnations since then, but it all...
by Dave deBronkart | Nov 21, 2016 |
As kindlers and promoters of a social movement, our Society for Participatory Medicine keeps a keen eye out for signs of traction in credible places for what we’ve been advocating since 2009: Participatory Medicine is a model of cooperative health care that...
by Peter Elias | Jul 7, 2016 |
Peter Elias MD (in photo at left) is a member-at-large on the board of our Society for Participatory Medicine. See his earlier posts here. Particularly relevant is his Proposal for a TRULY patient-centered medical record, The experience he recounts here, as a...
by Michael Millenson | Jun 3, 2016 |
On social media and at meetings like Health Datapalooza, our favorite federal bureaucrats assure us of their commitment to open data and patient empowerment. But those are just soothing words; federal regulations are law. On April 30, I posted on e-patients.net an...
by Dave deBronkart | May 24, 2016 |
As regular readers know, we’ve written many times about OpenNotes, the project funded by Robert Wood Johnson that blew the doors off of beliefs that bad things happen when patients see their charts. (We blogged about the original results in 2012.) Now a new...
by Michael Millenson | Apr 30, 2016 |
Quick summary for the impatient: Michael’s post urges public comment in the upcoming comment period, and ends with this: “If we in the patient community do not raise questions and objections to this critically important MACRA rule, you will definitely not...
by Dave deBronkart | Mar 1, 2016 |
It’s time again for the gigantic (50,000 people) HIMSS trade show – the Health Information Management Systems Society, in Las Vegas this year. These new SPM slides (on Slideshare) will be shown in the Consumer Engagement zone, summarizing our two surveys...
Experts Meeting in Quebec Ask “Who Chooses How Much of What?”August 18, 2017
WikiProject Medicine three years on: “converting clinicians to active digital contributors”August 7, 2017
WikiProject Medicine: med students join in producing high quality Wikipedia articles. (You can, too.)August 3, 2017
Lived Experience + Expertise = ValueJuly 22, 2017
#BMJDebate tweetchat: “terms of engagement” for patient voices, noon Thursday ETJuly 12, 2017
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