by e-Patient Dave | May 19, 2015
SPM co-founder and co-chair Dr. Danny Sands is appointed our first representative On Friday the following notice was distributed to members of our Society for Participatory Medicine. What a wonderful sign of medicine’s growing acceptance of the importance of...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 16, 2015
Several edits made, 1-2pm There is a movement underway – a movement for patient liberation and autonomy – and the empire is striking back, interfering with our efforts. We – the whole movement, not just SPM – need your help. If you’re in...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 13, 2015
Friday evening I got a tweet from SPM member Sherry Reynolds about something that had just happened in Washington. Today it unfolded. (Don’t miss her comment, too, about the history of this issue and her role in it.) Change can provoke upset. Technological...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 10, 2015
Perhaps it’s time for an argument about how we’re doing this. Many of us in the Society for Participatory Medicine have long noted that what we’re up to here is nothing less than full-bore culture change. In my own speeches I often note that culture...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 8, 2015
National Survey Also Shows 87% Think Health Information Exchange Should be Free First paragraph updated next day In case you missed it last month, there was an unprecedented, huge moment in SPM’s history – we collaborated in a national survey of...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 17, 2015
Dr. Donald Lindberg, long-time director of the National Library of Medicine, is surely the single most-quoted authority from “Doc Tom” Ferguson’s e-Patient White Paper. In almost every speech I’ve given in the past five years I’ve used...
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