Reforming Healthcare Archives

Moments that Matter: in-between routine care to emergency medicine

by Eric Bersh | Aug 28, 2023

From shared-decision making, patient-centered care and value-based care to common technology innovations, healthcare players often describe how we aspire healthcare to be in concepts, buzzwords, branding and what has become common lexicon mentioned in conversations...

Through the Maze: A New Model for Equitable Health Data Exchange

by Eric Bersh | Jun 6, 2023

My brother Jacob was born with a chronic neurological condition that caused him permanent physical and mental disabilities. As the only other child in a single parent family, I was often with Jacob during his frequent hospital stays and doctor visits. It is through...

AI Gives SPM a New Opportunity to Lead

by Eric Bersh | Apr 6, 2023

I recently posted an article entitled, “In Cancer, Patient-Empowering AI Begins to Change Care, Relationships,” that contained this declaration, “Good medicine needs to become participatory medicine, not least because involving the patient as a partner consistently...

Expert Advisory Boards: A New Model for Co-Exploration

by Eric Bersh | Jan 4, 2023

A few years ago I learned that non-profit organizations MUST have a Scientific or Medical Advisory Board in order to be listed on NIH’s website as an informational resource for patients. Likewise, many foundation grants require a non-profit to have a similar...

Patient Design: The Importance of Including Patients in Designing Health Care

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 30, 2022

This post is about a paper I co-authored in JMIR in August with Bertalan Meskó MD PhD, Patient Design: The Importance of Including Patients in Designing Health Care. It’s challenging and perhaps a bit confrontational to conventional healthcare, because it...

Turning Pain into Power through Advocacy

by Eric Bersh | Jul 12, 2022

When I heard the words, “You have Lupus,” I didn’t know the magnitude of how much my life was going to be tested. It started in 1980 when rashes and unexplained fevers plagued my life. Seeing doctors about my symptoms led to solutions that were only temporary. Fifteen...