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...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 3, 2017 |
March 1, 1992. 25 years ago. Yesterday I asked When was “Enriching the relationship by inviting the patient perspective” published? The words in that paper’s abstract [right] could have been written today – literally every word. It was printworthy a...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 2, 2017 |
Do not go look this up. I’ll post the answer tomorrow. We on this blog know Dr. Tom Delbanco as, among other things, the “father” of OpenNotes, along with “co-parent” Jan Walker, RN MBA. (For a history lesson, Tom’s also the lead...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Feb 20, 2017 |
In 2009, along with several physicians, patients and health activists, I helped form the Society for Participatory Medicine, a nonprofit promoting “a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in...
by Ileana Balcu | Feb 11, 2017 |
This is a post by SPM Board Member John Hoben – Business Development Director at Bio-Optronics. Hoben’s passion is reconfiguring medical industrial complex assets and transactions from sickness response to true preventive delivery. This entails focusing on...
by Danny van Leeuwen | Jan 4, 2017 |
Last month, in Communicate What? #CarePlanning, I declared the #CarePlanning hashtag, and told from personal experience the importance of communication in enabling participatory care. I ended with this – my perspective as the person who has the problem and the...
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