by e-Patient Dave | Jun 13, 2018 |
Email subscribers, I’m not sure the video below will come through to you – if it doesn’t, click the headline to come see it online. http://www.wtnh.com/ct-style/the-better-health-conference-helping-to-change-healthcare-as-we-know-it/1236774613 Last... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 5, 2018 |
This is so exasperating. For years we at the Society for Participatory Medicine have been among the leaders of the movement for patients to have access to their medical records, in EMRs and everywhere. We’ve blogged repeatedly (and advocated in DC) about patient... 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 | 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 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... 
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2017 |
I’m taking the extraordinary step of rerunning, verbatim, an entire post from 2014 about this important development. Why? Because tomorrow an update is coming, and to fully appreciate the news, you need to appreciate the background. Here’s the original,... 
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 21, 2017 |
As his TEDMED profile says, Dr. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD, co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He’s a long-time believer in the power of well managed information to help create well managed care. Many members of SPM got... by Ileana Balcu | Jun 8, 2017 |
Eric Topol published a Commentary on Medscape describing a study published in JAMA in which cancer patients that tracked 12 symptoms and shared the tracking results with their health teams had a five months increase in survival equivalent with some of the most...
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