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News about accessible technology that empowers patients to monitor their own health. Think smartphone and iPad apps.
Join SPM’s “Patient Perspectives” interop tour at #HIMSS18 (11 am Weds)
UPDATE FOR ATTENDEES: Try to arrive 10 minutes early — 10:50 am — to get oriented. On arrival a host will scan your badge and point you to the big round “Discovery desk” where we’ll gather. We’ll talk a bit for 10 minutes, then...
What My 90-Year-Old Mom Taught Me About the Future of AI In Health Care (WBUR)
As his TEDMED profile says, Dr. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD, co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He’s a long-time believer in the power of well managed information to help create well managed care. Many members of SPM got...RIP: Larry Weed, MD the creator of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record
Lawrence “Larry” Weed (born December 1923, died June 3, 2017) was an American physician, researcher, educator, entrepreneur, and author, who is best known for creating the problem-oriented medical record as well as one of the first electronic health records....Eric Topol: Landmark Digital Medicine Trial: Patient-Generated Data Improve Cancer Survival
Eric Topol published a Commentary on Medscape describing a study published in JAMA in which cancer patients that tracked 12 symptoms and shared the tracking results with their health teams had a five months increase in survival equivalent with some of the most...OpenID HEART: Sharing our data gives patients power
On September 26, 2016, President Obama recognized Health IT Week by saying: We have worked to clarify an individual’s legal right to access their health information and transmit it where they choose—whether it’s to a family member or to their smartphone. These efforts...“Unmarried teens would jump off bridges”: NY Times on suppression of home tests
A large part of the Society for Participatory Medicine’s work is culture change, and that requires pointing to the cultural roots of today’s situation, so that well-meaning people today can understand how we got here, and how absurd today will look in the...Peter Elias: a physician experiences a portal from the family side, and… #fail
Peter Elias MD (in photo at left) is a member-at-large on the board of our Society for Participatory Medicine. See his earlier posts here. Particularly relevant is his Proposal for a TRULY patient-centered medical record, The experience he recounts here, as a...“It’s not about the car – it’s about the drive.” #OpenAPS standing ovation for Mark Wilson.
This may be THE most important, articulate speech I’ve seen about profound progress in patient power – and why it matters. This talk by Mark Wilson about OpenAPS, at last Friday’s DiabetesMine D-Data ExChange 2016, contains a metaphor that’s...#OpenAPS is bearing big fruit, part 2: Quantified Self presentation in San Diego
A truly significant moment in the history of medicine happened last Wednesday. I say that after attending almost 500 conferences and policy meetings in the past seven years, and I don’t say it lightly. Something many people think is impossible was presented live...Recent Posts
- So, about this “big data” thing …January 7, 2019
Gail Phillips: My journey to the Society for Participatory MedicineDecember 26, 2018
Meetin’ Up and Building SPM Community in ChicagoDecember 5, 2018- SPM’s team leadership search for 2019December 4, 2018
Pay people for their data – yes, or no?November 16, 2018
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