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Collaborative Notes, Engaged Partners, Fewer Errors

by Danny van Leeuwen | Jun 13, 2022

Patients, care partners & clinicians can reduce record errors with collaborative notes. Dr. Peter Elias shares his note-writing with collaborative partners. Proem Expecting an error-free medical record seems unreasonable – too many opportunities, too many forces,...

“Help me see the dragon I’m slaying”: pathologists meeting directly with patients

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 28, 2020

Now this is patient-centered care. This may be the most wonderful participatory innovation I’ve seen since OpenNotes in 2012. This one’s completely different: OpenNotes is about patient access to the medical record, but this one invites patients to see...

Apparently Only Doctors Can Help on Twitter?

by John Grohol | Dec 15, 2019

In a piece entitled, “Why Doctors Need to be on Twitter,” Jack Turban, MD and Jessica Gold, MD seem to have transported back in time to a world where e-patients don’t exist. The piece argues that because Twitter is such a cesspool of misinformation...

Skeptics ask why patients would even WANT their medical images. We asked on Facebook.

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 5, 2018

Great update 20 months later: UCSF Hospital announced Jan 10, 2020 that they’ve made radiology images available through their MyChart portal, and Dr. Mark Kohli tweeted that it’s due to the speech that resulted from this blog post! Here’s their...

Eric Topol: Landmark Digital Medicine Trial: Patient-Generated Data Improve Cancer Survival

by Ileana Balcu | Jun 8, 2017

Eric Topol published a Commentary on Medscape describing a study published in JAMA in which cancer patients that tracked 12 symptoms and shared the tracking results with their health teams had a five months increase in survival equivalent with some of the most...

Participatory Personalized Medicine in Action: Pharmacogenomics in Primary Care

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...