by e-Patient Dave | May 23, 2016
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...
by e-Patient Dave | May 20, 2016
For some reason we haven’t written much about this here – our only post is from SPM Past President Nick Dawson 15 months ago – but this is such a big deal. Here’s an 11 minute introductory video on this – I won’t say more,...
by Alicia Staley | Feb 8, 2016
SPM members Janice McCallum and Pat Rioux are also members of the New England chapter of HIMSS, the gigantic Health Information Management Systems Society. They have arranged a special deal for SPM members: free admission to their March 29 meeting (if you register by...
by Peter Elias | Jan 25, 2016
The other night I participated in a very useful Google+ hangout with SPM members Adrian Gropper and Michael Mascia, and Michael Chen [of NOSH, explained below]. The discussion focused on a subject I think is incredibly important: the patient-centered health record....
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 28, 2015
For whose benefit does the healthcare industry exist? For the investors, or the people whose needs are the reason for the industry? Facebook last night was celebrating a small but significant legal victory this week for the “gimme my DaM data” movement (“Data about...
by David Harlow | Jun 20, 2015
Patient Reviews of Physicians: The Wisdom of the Crowd? Google Hangout On Air Hosted by David Harlow with Niam Yaraghi and Casey Quinlan Wed, Jun 24, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET Presented by David Harlow (aka HealthBlawg) in association with The Society for...
by e-Patient Dave | May 28, 2015
A quick first post, copied from Facebook: “Hugest news EVER! Susannah Fox is the new Chief Technology Officer at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. How amazing is that??” My comment on Susannah’s short post: “This wins my prize as...
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 | Jan 23, 2015
I’m beyond thrilled. Way beyond thrilled. This is going to take some figuring out, but is this what we’ve been striving toward, or what?? For years we’ve written here about the OpenNotes study (MyOpenNotes.org), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 27, 2014
Ah, social media. On Facebook a couple of hours ago, Swedish SPM member Sara Riggare posted: Responses were quick and robust: “Web MD has an app that you can download that I use. I find it pretty useful.” – Mark Burek “That’s a sticky...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 10, 2014
Interesting blog at HIMSS by Pete Rivera: use the patient to redesign the workflow: Thought Leadership – the Patient Perspective For years, I advocated that health IT does not drive business. I still do. Rethinking your processes to leverage technology is just...
by e-Patient Dave | May 18, 2014
SPM co-founder Charlie Smith (Charles W. Smith, MD) was “Doc Tom” Ferguson’s own physician, and currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of our Journal of Participatory Medicine. He’s just published a brief but important editorial in the journal....
by Ileana Balcu | Apr 3, 2014
By Mark Branning and Brad Tritle Mark Branning is Principal at mdb Healthcare IT Solutions, Adjunct Professor at National University, a member of the HIMSS Connected Patient Committee and co-chair of the Connected Patient Community. Mr. Branning has spent 33 years...
by e-Patient Dave | Feb 25, 2014
Long-time readers will recall a hallway conversation I had at a conference in 2011 with Silke von Esenwein PhD of Emory University’s Center for Behavioral Health Policy Studies, who was presenting a poster with preliminary results of a study in process. The post...
by Nick Dawson | Jan 23, 2014
This post originally appeared on NickDawson.net here. Spoiler alert: I’m not dying and there doesn’t appear to be anything major wrong with me. I know, you hate spoilers. But I thought I’d get that one out of there way. It makes the rest of this considerably...
by David Harlow | Oct 14, 2013
Meaningful Use Stage 2 includes the requirement that health care providers with EHRs seeking Meaningful Use incentive dollars demonstrate that 5% of patients actually view, download or transmit their data. The HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule, which is now fully in effect...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 15, 2013
Monday Sept. 16 is the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit. That means we, the patients, are the focus – we and our data, of course! – along with the providers (doctors, nurses, practices, hospitals) who serve us. You can watch live, online, without prior...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 31, 2013
I’ve just attended John Moore MD’s “defense,” as they call it – his presentation of the results from his PhD thesis project at the M.I.T. Media Lab. The project has participatory medicine written all over it: it’s about Developing...
by David Harlow | Apr 24, 2013
With the tireless help of Adrian Gropper, and the counsel of executive committee members Michael Millenson and Danny Sands who went above and beyond, and our President Sarah Krüg, the Society for Participatory Medicine’s Public Policy Committee completed a...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 22, 2013
Imagine a black box. You can feed all sorts of information and data into it all the live long day. But the amount of data you can get out of it is limited. It just stares back at you with its blank, neutral sides. It can tell you things like where it was manufactured,...
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