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...
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