by Casey Quinlan | Oct 30, 2014
SPM member Casey Quinlan (who’s posting this) was invited to attend an event at the WHO in Geneva. This post originally appeared on her Mighty Casey Media blog, and is reposted here in its entirety by SPM request. Guess who got invited to WHO? No, really....
by Ileana Balcu | Oct 22, 2014
Wikipedia says “Participatory medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and … providers encourage and value them as  full partners.” That movement gets a big boost in...
by Casey Quinlan | Sep 4, 2014
Preface (later) by e-Patient Dave – Casey and I were discussing that one of the obstacles impeding changing in medicine is that by law, corporate officers have to serve their shareholders first, i.e. make money before they get into any do-gooder stuff. The...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 9, 2014
This article was part of the big Health Affairs issue “New Era of Patient Engagement” (Feb 2013) which Ileana Balcu blogged about at the time. I’ve long been a fan of the Patient Activation Measure, which IÂ wrote about here three years ago in The...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 29, 2014
An article of importance to our movement appeared in June, in our Journal of Participatory Medicine. It’s an analysis of twelve years of literature about patient engagement, documenting what words people used, what context they appeared in, and (perhaps most...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 27, 2014
Ah, social media. On Facebook a couple of hours ago, Swedish SPM member Sara Riggare posted: Responses were quick and robust: “Web MD has an app that you can download that I use. I find it pretty useful.” –Â Mark Burek “That’s a sticky...
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