by Kathleen O'Malley | Jun 5, 2013
This guest post was written by Lisanne St. Onge Klute and originally appeared on The Story of iPatchman, a blog for e-patients with brain tumors. It is a great example of the power of social media for helping e-patients find the best treatment. Thanks to Akiva...
by Eve Harris | May 1, 2013
SPM member Jody Schoger’s post “Cancer: Part Two” at her blog Women with Cancer landed with a big thud on April 26. Schoger was recently diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She’s a co-founder of #bcsm (breast cancer social media), one of the highest...
by Ileana Balcu | Mar 20, 2013
Please join us for a tweetchat this evening – Wednesday March 20 at 8 PM ET/ 5PM PT. We’ll talk about: What’s new with Gimme my DAM Data #gmdd ? – Wall Street Journal picked the story at SXSW conference...
by Ileana Balcu | Jan 25, 2013
The HIMSS blog features e-Patient Dave, the 5 Es of e-Patients and how social media can help. http://blog.himss.org/2013/01/25/part-1-value-of-social-media-in-healthcare-is-already-outlined-just-not-realized/ For whatever reason – whether it’s budget, time, buy-in or...
by Susannah Fox | Nov 4, 2012
Hurricane Sandy “slapped the snark out of Twitter” for media reporter David Carr. In his column today, Carr discusses a newfound sense of community, which will sound familiar to anyone who uses social media to navigate an acute or chronic health condition:...
by Ileana Balcu | Jul 17, 2012
If you are in Boston this Friday, you can attend the Social Media Breakfast. The SPM member Alicia Staley will present the progress of the #bcsm (breast cancer social media) community. Other speakers will be there as well and it only costs $8.00. For more details and...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jun 27, 2012
This post originally appeared at http://socialmedia.mayoclinic.org/2012/06/20/2012-patient-caregiver-scholarship-contest-for-social-media-summit/. The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is offering an opportunity for patient advocates to attend its Social Media...
by Ileana Balcu | Jun 22, 2012
Thanks to David Harlow for the heads-up to a contest for scholarships for patients to attend Mayo Clinic’s Social Media Summit: Excerpt: The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is offering an opportunity for patient advocates to attend its Social Media Summit...
by Ileana Balcu | May 24, 2012
Member John Sharp from Cleveland Clinic has a great review of Social Media in Health Care in the last two years. The Society for Participatory Medicine is also mentioned....
by Kathleen O'Malley | Apr 24, 2012
SPM member and Bay Area writer Eve Harris looks at information technology’s role in promoting participatory medicine on KQED’s State of Health blog. Harris discusses tools familiar to most e-patients, but what’s really noteworthy here is the evidence...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 19, 2012
From SPM communication team leader Ileana Balcu: Lisa Fields @PracticalWisdom hosted an wonderful chat last night on the topic of patient presence at conferences. Lisa was a great host and we had a record number of paticipants. Please skim through the transcript on...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 16, 2012
One of the best-known sad stories in the e-patient movement is that of SPM member Regina Holliday, her husband Fred, and their two children. Fred died three years ago of kidney cancer in a series of failures of American healthcare, leaving a story that Regina now...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Feb 8, 2012
Guest blogger Helen Palmquist is a member of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance support community, hosted by Inspire. She lives in suburban Chicago. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age 41, in the pre-Web days of 1987. From my hospital bed after my first...
by Susannah Fox | Feb 3, 2012
#whatifhc in #TheWalkingGallery Note: This is two posts in one — scroll down to read Regina Holliday’s point of view. From Susannah Fox: For me, Twitter is a free-wheeling space where people dance with ideas. Anyone is welcome to jump into...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 21, 2011
The Journal of Participatory Medicine recently published a new commentary, “A Skydiver Jumps, and an Online Community Exults,” about the unexpected power of storytelling in a lung cancer support group. After sharing an uplifting story with her online...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Aug 9, 2011
Social media is well established in our society and it shows much promise as a tool of patient-physician communication. But despite some cases of good and enriching rapport between patients and physicians in social media, the medical world, on the whole, is still...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Jul 19, 2011
SPM member John Novack, of the Inspire.com patient communities, submitted this guest post by Wendy Station about another online community — another great example of patients engaging in their care, supplementing the value they get from their medical...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 9, 2011
Awesome short post by Twitter buddy AnneMarie Cunningham (Twitter @AMCunningham), a GP in Cardiff, UK. The post starts like this: “On Sunday afternoon I spotted Atul Gawande tweeting whilst watching the Wimbledon final… I thought I would let him know that...
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