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...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 30, 2016 |
Somehow I’d never heard of National Doctors’ Day, but apparently it started 25 years ago, in 1991. As one of many SPM members whose life was saved (or is being helped) by excellent physicians, I’m in! And I want to shine a broader spotlight on the...
Got Candles? Happy 30th Birthday to the World Wide Web!March 12, 2019
SPM member Jeanne Pinder on TED home pageFebruary 21, 2019
Sara Riggare is Swede of the Year in medicineJanuary 31, 2019
Gail Phillips: My journey to the Society for Participatory MedicineDecember 26, 2018
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