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JoPM recommendation: “Team Up for Health”

by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 22, 2011

The Journal of Participatory Medicine has just published a Media Watch piece about a new initiative from the California HealthCare Foundation called Team Up for Health. This website is a good example of an online tool that helps primary care providers support patients...

Social media, patients, and physicians: a sticky wicket

by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 9, 2011

Social media is well established in our society and it shows much promise as a tool of patient-physician communication. But despite some cases of good and enriching rapport between patients and physicians in social media, the medical world, on the whole, is still...

Examples, please: peer-to-peer healthcare

by Susannah Fox | Jun 27, 2011

I’m writing an article and would love to tap into this community’s knowledge. I know of a few examples of clinical practices using Facebook and Twitter to connect with patients, such as MacArthur OB/GYN, but I’d love to learn about other examples,...

Pioneers of patient engagement

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 27, 2011

Credit where credit is due. The Danish Medical Association’s annual meeting is coming up in a few days. For the event’s blog, they requested a post about patient engagement! I wrote about the pioneers at my hospital who for many years have been saying that...

SPM on the Air: People’s Pharmacy (NPR)

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 10, 2011

Joe and Terry Graedon, long-time friends of “Doc Tom” Ferguson, produce The People’s Pharmacy, a website and radio program on NPR. Last Saturday’s program was about the Society for Participatory Medicine, which they helped to found in 2009....

“How to become a more effective e-patient” (and clinician): lecture at Duke by Dr. Charles Smith

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 19, 2010

Well, here’s a treat: Dr. Charles Smith, a founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine, recently gave a lecture at Duke titled “How to Become a More Effective e-Patient.” Here it is, in four YouTube segments. “Charlie,” as we all...