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Big BMJ supplement on Patient Centred Care – with many SPM and MedX voices

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 11, 2015

This is a great week for SPM, for our colleagues at the Stanford Medicine X conference, and for everyone else who’s been working for years to shift medicine’s thinking about the role of the patient: Yesterday the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal)...

A landmark day in the movement: Patients in the Front Row

by Nick Dawson | Jan 31, 2015

Last Friday, 200 patients, advocates, scientists, doctors and researchers gathered at the White House to hear President Obama’s launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative. According to the President, precision medicine...

Evidence: “Patients value direct, independent access to their medical exams.” Who knew??

by e-Patient Dave | Dec 3, 2014

Edited an hour later – added Business Impact section at end Healthcare providers who are tracking patient experience and patient satisfaction, take note: a new study reported yesterday in Science Daily provides evidence that we patients really like it when we...

Mayo chief residents name SPM patient as Visiting Professor in Internal Medicine

by Ileana Balcu | Oct 22, 2014

Wikipedia says “Participatory medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and … providers encourage and value them as full partners.” That movement gets a big boost in...

A Farewell to Richard Rockefeller, e-Health Visionary

by Michael Millenson | Jun 16, 2014

The founders of SPM were saddened this weekend to learn of the death, in a private plane crash, of Richard Rockefeller, longtime friend of “Doc Tom” Ferguson. Rockefeller was credited in Ferguson’s white paper as “a White Paper Advisor.”...

Wall Street Journal on patient access: “Health-Care Providers Want Patients to Read Medical Records, Spot Errors”

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 10, 2014

Regular readers know that this blog has long advocated for patient access to, and engagement with, the medical record. In the past 2-3 years we’ve especially advocated for OpenNotes, in which patients can see their primary’s actual visit notes. At my...