by e-Patient Dave | Aug 9, 2014
This article was part of the big Health Affairs issue “New Era of Patient Engagement” (Feb 2013) which Ileana Balcu blogged about at the time. I’ve long been a fan of the Patient Activation Measure, which IÂ wrote about here three years ago in The...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 1, 2014
We’ve often written here about the OpenNotes study (here’s a site search), which documented that when patients can see what their clinicians wrote, the sky doesn’t fall; instead, all kinds of good things happen. This is game-changing, even...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 29, 2014
An article of importance to our movement appeared in June, in our Journal of Participatory Medicine. It’s an analysis of twelve years of literature about patient engagement, documenting what words people used, what context they appeared in, and (perhaps most...
by Marilyn Mann | Jul 28, 2014
Preface by e-Patient Dave: We have often written here (see posts) about Shared Decision Making, in which patients are engaged in choosing among treatment options. A key method is to give patients a “decision aid” (DA) – a document or video that...
by Ileana Balcu | Jul 16, 2014
This blog welcomes guest posts from SPM members on relevant topics. Zack Berger of Johns Hopkins (@ZackBergerMDPhD) is highly committed to participatory medicine, and as this post shows, his book Talking To Your Doctor gets right down into the how-to’s. (More on...
by Casey Quinlan | Jul 2, 2014
Several SPM members were in attendance at the recent SIIPC14 conference at Dartmouth, where the ongoing work on healthcare system transformation  has been the source of much great content on e-patients.net over the years. Casey Quinlan – yes, yours truly...
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