by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Jan 15, 2025
For decades, policymakers, CEOs, politicians, doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, caregivers, and anyone who’s been a patient inside or outside a hospital has known one simple fact — the US healthcare system is broken. Every other first world country has...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 29, 2024
Guest post by long-time SPM member Tracy Zervakis. Participatory medicine involves professionals and patients working together to get healthcare done. When a treatment plan is agreed and chosen, the best outcome obviously requires carrying out the plan – but...
by Eric Bersh | Feb 1, 2023
Flash back to my article for the Society for Participatory Medicine last year: Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022. I’m here to deliver some great news: we tied the knot! By the power vested in clinical research, the FDA now pronounces us...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 17, 2022
I know this is short notice. Quickly submit a letter  TODAY JUNE 17 demanding that CMS not give in to industry pressure on this vital patient empowerment issue. Pick a template letter provided by Leapfrog Group and use it as is, or change as many words as you like:...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 9, 2020
The long-awaited rules on data access have been published this morning from two key parts of the US Department of Health & Human Services. I’ll expand this post with more links as we digest what’s been offered and will unfold in the coming week. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 26, 2020
Many people are asking if they can add their stories or their signatures. Please do so in comments! We’ll copy signatures into the body of the post as time allows. We, the undersigned, are patients, family caregivers and advocates who are desperate to receive...
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