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#PatientsIncluded statement for SPM’s Second Annual Conference: #SPM2018

by e-Patient Dave | Oct 3, 2018 | 0 comments

Here’s the latest in a series of posts about the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here. (Our #SPM2018 series has more about the speakers and...

A “METRIC” of Progress for Participatory Medicine. Join us at #SPM2018

by Peter Elias | Sep 27, 2018 | 0 comments

A recent medical society article demonstrates that participatory medicine advocates have made progress. The central point of the article is that the current approach to metrics distracts from the need to focus on the patient. As the authors phrase it: “There are...

#SPM2018 speaker @RasuShrestha: “Let’s move from paternalism to where the patient is a true participant”

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 25, 2018 | 3 comments

Here’s the latest in a series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here. Healthcare...

The next evolutionary step for SPM: a manifesto

by John Novack | Sep 24, 2018 | 0 comments

Here’s the latest in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. And see this blog’s #SPM2018 series for more about, or by, the speakers and...

#SPM2018 speaker @MightyCasey gets piped in at Cochrane in Edinburgh

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 17, 2018 | 0 comments

For updates, follow Casey’s tweets on the #CochraneForAll hashtag – tweets by her and tweets tagging her. Casey will be a speaker at #SPM2018 on Oct 17, in a session with Ivan Handler of the Insightamation blog – “Thoughts and provocations on...

@PsychCentral Show’s Gabe Howard to co-host live podcast episode at #SPM2018

by John Novack | Sep 17, 2018 | 0 comments

Here’s the latest in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. Embracing participatory medicine has helped Gabe Howard @GabeHoward29 manage...

Burt Rosen on the #SPM2018 conference: “Fix this f$%(*$&’ing mess we call health care!”

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 14, 2018 | 2 comments

I joined the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine (sorry, I have to shorten it to SPM) about one year ago. I joined because I honestly think health care is f$#%#’ed up and I want to make a difference. We all agree about the problems, but my views on...

#SPM2018 speaker Doug Lindsay: Driven by experience to advocate passionately for participatory medicine

by John Novack | Sep 10, 2018 | 0 comments

First in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. Doug Lindsay calls himself as Transformational Thought Leader, an apt...

SPM on TV in Hartford after last week’s “Better Health” conference

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 13, 2018 | 0 comments

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...

Skeptics ask why patients would even WANT their medical images. We asked on Facebook.

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 5, 2018 | 23 comments

Great update 20 months later: UCSF Hospital announced Jan 10, 2020 that they’ve made radiology images available through their MyChart portal, and Dr. Mark Kohli tweeted that it’s due to the speech that resulted from this blog post! Here’s their...

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