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Thanks from the Philippines

by Ileana Balcu | Nov 27, 2013

In this guest blog post, member Beatrice Tiangco describes some of the pain and suffering in the Philippines after the typhoon and expresses her gratitude for the SPM, local community and overall support. Beatrice Tiangco is a practicing Medical Oncologist from the...

Mobile, social, health, care

by Susannah Fox | Nov 15, 2013

A clinical trial in Kenya confirmed that human kindness is the secret ingredient to health and mobile phones are an ideal delivery system. Well, that’s my interpretation. Here’s the gist: Taking your meds is essential to maintaining your health when you...

Summit on Identifying Family Caregivers on Medical Records – by Suzanne Mintz

by Ileana Balcu | Nov 13, 2013

Below is a guest post by Suzanne Mintz, founder Family Caregiver Advocacy about a summit where patients and caregivers were an integral part of the healthcare redesign process. More and more you will see us featuring meetings and conferences that include patients and...

Join #s4pm tweetchat Saturday 10/12 at 3pm ET

by Ileana Balcu | Oct 10, 2013

We’re organizing a tweetchat this Saturday – October 12 at 3 PM ET to welcome MedX partcipants into the Society for Participatory Medicine. We will discuss our communications tools, and other topics of interset to our members: e-patients, health care...

Let’s bring “e-patient” to geriatrics

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 29, 2013

At the extraordinary Stanford Medicine X conference I connected with SPM member Leslie Kernisan (Twitter @GeriTechBlog), a geriatrician who’s deeply interested in and committed to enabling elders and caregivers through patient and family engagement. We recorded...

Monday: Watch the Consumer Health IT Summit live. Our time is here!

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...