by e-Patient Dave | Apr 13, 2018 |
Longtime SPM member Danny van Leeuwen (@HealthHats) is seeking nomination and support as a “patient/caregiver stakeholder” seat on the Board of Governors of PCORI, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, about which we’ve blogged often... 
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 6, 2018 |
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... by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2018 |
This is a long overdue post of the next session from our Society’s first conference on October 25. The first keynote, about OpenNotes, was posted here, including this note: WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled... 
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 20, 2017 |
No surprise to e-patients: a new study in the journal Surgery found that when patients facing a liver transplant connected with each other, they liked it. Read the article about it in MobiHealthNews or the original paper, if you can get it. Here’s an extract... 
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 29, 2017 |
I’m way late in blogging this – too much travel and jet lag – but WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled ““Participatory Medicine: Transforming the Culture of Care” (web page), it produced... 
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 27, 2017 |
Why the Movement Needs a Breakthrough, and How You Can Help Guest post by SPM member Tyson Ortiz (right), a highly committed member of SPM who works in organizational culture change. His previous post, How I became an e-patient: through practice, with coaching (using... 
by e-Patient Dave | Nov 16, 2017 |
The image above is from the blog post described below. SPM board member-at-large Peter Elias MD is a recently retired family physician who says he’s always practiced participatory medicine, long before he knew it had a name. He’s contributing a terrific... 
by Michael Millenson | Nov 15, 2017 |
Baseball, like medicine, is deeply imbued with a sense of tradition, and no team more so than the New York Yankees, disdainful of innovations like placing players’ names on the backs of their jerseys and resistant to eroding strict standards related to haircuts and... 
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 22, 2017 |
This may be the best short talk ever about the importance of participatory medicine. SPM’s past president Sarah Krüg (@SaraKrug1) recently did a 10 minute TEDx Talk in Brussels. It’s one of those rare ones that’s pretty riveting. Watch it. Join us. Our Society for... 
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 7, 2017 |
“To help inform patients of the best scientific knowledge…” “…as future physicians, they realize that part of their contract with society is to meet patients where they are and to help inform patients of the best of scientific knowledge about...
Join SPM’s workshop May 16 at “What’s The Fix?” at Dell Medical School. Free registration!April 18, 2018
Support @HealthHats Danny van Leeuwen’s nomination for PCORI Board of GovernorsApril 13, 2018
Psych Central podcast: “We often feel very isolated, but we have a lot more in common than we realize.”April 12, 2018
Must Do By Midnight: Comment On NIH Plan For Handling ALL Health Data!April 2, 2018
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