by Casey Quinlan | Oct 20, 2018 |
This will be the third, and last, in my short series on attending the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September of this year. In the first post, I talked about what that conference was like; in the second, I shared an overview of Cochrane as a global movement to... 
by Casey Quinlan | Oct 13, 2018 |
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that yours truly got the chance to attend the annual Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September this year, thanks to a travel stipend from SPM, a #PatientsIncluded bursary from Cochrane UK, the hosts of the 2018... 
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 9, 2018 |
[Update: this post has been picked up and cross-posted on the widely read The Health Care Blog] Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct.... 
by Casey Quinlan | Oct 6, 2018 |
Red Hot Chilli Pipers at the Colloquium | image credit: Simon Williams Photography I won the big platinum #PatientsIncluded ring (much better than brass) this year with an opportunity to attend the Cochrane Colloquium, the global health science and health services... 
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 25, 2018 |
Here’s the latest in a series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here. Healthcare... 
by Casey Quinlan | Aug 27, 2018 |
From SPM Lifetime Member Josh Rubin: Fellow S4PMers, I am elated to report that on Monday, August 20, 2018, The Health Care Blog (THCB) re-posted my S4PM guest blog post titled, “Biomedical Knowledge Must Be Mobilized to Save Lives, Not Privatized in the... 
by Casey Quinlan | Aug 5, 2018 |
Guest post by SPM Lifetime Member Joshua C. Rubin, JD, MBA, MPH, MPP Last week, Facebook’s unprecedented stock price collapse triggered by concerns over personal data privacy, as well as same-day commentary regarding GlaxoSmithKline’s investment in 23andMe to gain... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2018 |
TONIGHT: 9 pm Eastern time. #BCSM Twitter chat on the latest Facebook privacy issue. This time the data leaked is from a patient group. FB says it’s a nothingburger. What do you think? Facebook has a record of privacy leaks. The poster shown here (click to... 
by Michael Millenson | Jun 27, 2018 |
This is the second of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The first provided background, with link to a PDF of the comments SPM submitted, largely authored by Michael Millenson, who provides this essay for context.... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 27, 2018 |
This is the first of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The second is by Michael Millenson, who did the lion’s share of this work, as noted below. Our Society’s Advocacy and Policy chair Vera Rulon...
Whither Cochrane, for e-patients and everyone else?October 20, 2018
At #SPM2018, Ivan Handler (with @MightyCasey) Wants to Put the Care Back in HealthcareOctober 15, 2018
The who, what, when, where, and why of CochraneOctober 13, 2018
#SPM2018 speaker preview – Brennen Hodge: “Health is the New Wealth”October 12, 2018
#SPM2018 speaker preview – Jason Bobe: “The future of medicine begins with the patient”October 10, 2018
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