by Ileana Balcu | Sep 8, 2015
To all in the Washington/Baltimore/northern Virginia area (and elsewhere if you care to travel!): The patient committee of the Society for Improved Diagnosis in Medicine would like to invite you to our second annual Patient Summit on Diagnosis. The summit is part of...
by Sarah Krüg | Jul 22, 2015
Three continents. Five patients. Three conferences. Dramatic change is occurring in healthcare where patients, “the true transformers in care”, are changing the playing field, and redefining how they want to engage and affect change. The Society for Participatory...
by Casey Quinlan | Jul 3, 2015
SPM member MaryAnne Sterling is Co-founder of tech startup Connected Health Resources – she’s a healthcare transformer and person-centered care activist whose motto is: no family caregiver left behind. A recent experience, what she calls her “go fund...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 10, 2015
This blog welcomes guest posts from SPM members on relevant topics. This is a blog post by Annette McKinnon, an e-patient in Canada. Annette is an enthusiastic advocate for patient inclusion in research and healthcare decision making. She has had rheumatoid...
by Marge Benham-Hutchins | May 21, 2014
An international conference addressing information technology and communication in health (ITCH) will be held February 26 – March 1, 2015 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Professor Stephen Hawking’s statement, “we learned to talk, we learned to listen, we...
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