by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 1, 2012
Guest blogger Benoit Bisson, a kidney cancer patient, journalist and SPM member in Montréal, offers an international perspective on the participatory medicine movement. He’s @Benoit_Bisson on Twitter; his blog is BenoitBisson.com. Guest post submissions are...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 28, 2012
What is the role of the patient? As we noted in April, TEDMED and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have designated “The Role of the Patient” as one of the twenty TEDMED Great Challenges for 2013, and the TEDMED site will host a big conversation about it...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 23, 2012
In our Society for Participatory Medicine we define this new approach to medicine as …a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to active drivers of their care, and providers encourage and value them as full partners. An article in...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 19, 2012
Shortcut: to respond to this Federal request, go to this post on the government’s blog. Update 9 a.m. 6/19: Josh Seidman, author of this post, says there’s no specific deadline; these comments will feed into HITPC )the Health IT Policy Committee), which...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 12, 2012
I’ve received an interesting request: Women Executives in Healthcare, a Hartford professional organization, will hold a meeting this fall themed around “Who owns your data?” And they asked, what are patients’ top five issues? Of course I have...
by Alan Greene | Jun 5, 2012
At Health Datapalooza today in Washington, DC, the Society for Participatory Medicine announced the live beta launch of our Seal Program. The SPM Seal will be awarded to clinicians and to patients who make four simple, achievable, but powerful participatory...
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