by e-Patient Dave | Apr 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 e-Patient Dave | Feb 21, 2019 |
The famous TED Talks site TED.com is the holy grail of many evangelists. Aside from the extraordinary visibility it gives your message, and aside from the validation of your message (the site’s tagline is “Ideas worth spreading”), it means... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 31, 2019 |
Sara RIggare, one of the earliest members of our Society, has just received a great honor: Fokus magazine (“Sweden’s Time“) has named her “Swede of the Year” in medicine. In the photo from the award ceremony she seems appropriately... by e-Patient Dave | Jan 7, 2019 |
On Facebook last Friday our member Carla Berg Nelson posted briefly about a new Psychology Today blog post, Data: the New Window into Humanity, by John Nosta. She tagged a number of other members (and non). I know and respect Nosta from his days creating a LinkedIn... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 26, 2018 |
A new article in the open access BMC journal Implementation Science reviewed 48 articles about involving patients in projects that redesigned small and large parts of healthcare delivery. Conclusion: higher levels of engaging patients in the work led to higher level... 
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 20, 2018 |
An important post from long-time SPM member (and former board member) Jane Sarasohn-Kahn (@HealthyThinker), cross-posted from her widely read Health Populi site. (The screen capture above is from this BBC article, which came out hours after Jane’s post below.)... by e-Patient Dave | Apr 7, 2017 |
We’ve written often here about the BMJ’s leadership on not just listening to patients but looking at healthcare from the patient’s perspective. Their patient partnership campaign, launched in 2014, includes a patient advisory panel that works... by e-Patient Dave | Sep 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 | Jun 22, 2016 |
Regular followers of this blog know for years we’ve been hot on the trail of the never-ending search for truth, justice, and please some reliable advice on medical matters. Tonight a google alert alerted us to the next round, the next attempt: a column by the... by e-Patient Dave | Jun 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...
Fast-Paced Compelling Topics at Atlantic Pulse: The Atlantic Summit on Health Care, BostonMay 2, 2019
Manage your health data, or trust blindly? Setting the stage for a data disaster, part 2April 11, 2019
It’s the 10th anniversary of trying to get our health data: “I’m putting my data in Google and HealthVault”April 10, 2019
A million views in 44 days! ClearHealthCosts price transparency TED Talk goes viralApril 5, 2019
The process of shared decision-making: What it is, when it’s not, and what it should beMarch 27, 2019
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