by e-Patient Dave | Oct 15, 2018 |
Here’s the last in our 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. Last chance: register here....
by Casey Quinlan | Oct 13, 2018 |
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that yours truly got the chance to attend the annual Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh in September this year, thanks to a travel stipend from SPM, a #PatientsIncluded bursary from Cochrane UK, the hosts of the 2018...
by Casey Quinlan | Oct 6, 2018 |
Red Hot Chilli Pipers at the Colloquium | image credit: Simon Williams Photography I won the big platinum #PatientsIncluded ring (much better than brass) this year with an opportunity to attend the Cochrane Colloquium, the global health science and health services...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 7, 2018 |
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by SPM member Nancy Michaels. Members of our society are welcome to submit guest posts – see the guidelines. I remember when Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood first aired on the Public Broadcasting System. In my mind, he...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2018 |
It’s here: our Society’s new Doc Tom Awards are open for nominations! Spread the word, and join us at our second annual conference on October 17 for the award! If you don’t yet know about Doc Tom Ferguson, founder of the e-patient movement, read our...
by Michael Millenson | Jul 4, 2018 |
Originally published six years ago – as good as new today! The empowered patient, skeptical of professional authority, is not a new phenomenon: s/he was actually created by the American Revolution. Reading through historian Gordon Wood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...
by Michael Millenson | Jun 27, 2018 |
This is the second of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The first provided background, with link to a PDF of the comments SPM submitted, largely authored by Michael Millenson, who provides this essay for context....
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 27, 2018 |
This is the first of two posts about this important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The second is by Michael Millenson, who did the lion’s share of this work, as noted below. Our Society’s Advocacy and Policy chair Vera Rulon...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 6, 2018 |
UPDATE FOR ATTENDEES: Try to arrive 10 minutes early — 10:50 am — to get oriented. On arrival a host will scan your badge and point you to the big round “Discovery desk” where we’ll gather. We’ll talk a bit for 10 minutes, then...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2018 |
This is a long overdue post of the next session from our Society’s first conference on October 25. The first keynote, about OpenNotes, was posted here, including this note: WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled...
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