by Danny van Leeuwen | Mar 23, 2017 |
I’m an old hippie [left]. I’ve lived in many houses and on a farm (commune?) with other people. Regularly we heard, “I agreed to what? No I didn’t.” “Since when is that a rule?” I, and then my wife and I, developed skill in...
by Ileana Balcu | Jul 30, 2016 |
In the Spring of 2016 I had the opportunity to teach the course New Media and Health Communication for an undergraduate class at The College of New Jersey. The class, designed by Dr. Yifeng Hu, already included an introduction to participatory medicine and patient...
by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Apr 15, 2016 |
Next in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. I first met Tom Ferguson in 1994 online (where else?) when he reached out via email to chat about online support groups. I was still in graduate school at the time, and he had come across my indexes of Internet...
by Dave deBronkart | Apr 13, 2016 |
Third in our #DocTom10 series, which started here. Yesterday I asked that you download Ferguson’s white paper, the manifesto he was working on when he died unexpectedly, ten years ago tomorrow. Today we’ll look at the preface. The lost section:...
by Dave deBronkart | Apr 11, 2016 |
“Doc Tom” Ferguson, the source of our Society for Participatory Medicine, died unexpectedly ten years ago this week, April 14, 2006. In the coming days we’ll run a series of posts remembering his work and vision. Especially, we’re going to walk...
by Dave deBronkart | Nov 28, 2015 |
Dr. Danny Sands is one of the co-founders of our Society for Participatory Medicine, a great primary care physician, and a real thought leader who’s been doing this modern stuff for twenty years. (He co-authored the first journal paper on how to do...
by Dave deBronkart | Oct 22, 2015 |
Here’s something I’ve never done: I’m capturing a comment from this blog five years ago and making it a post of its own, so it’s easier to find, because I think this is going to be more and more of an issue. It’s clearer and clearer that,...
by Dave deBronkart | Oct 2, 2015 |
Yesterday super-e-patients Regina Holliday, Michael Seres and I spoke on a webcast titled “End-to-End Patient Engagement that Drives Loyalty and Outcomes,” hosted by Liz Boehm of Vocera.com’s @EINHealth Experience Innovation Network. Frankly, we...
by Casey Quinlan | Sep 9, 2015 |
A guest post from member Jeffrey Halbstein-Harris – this is a small slice of a longer piece he used as the basis for a speaking engagement. This is a call to consumers: my brothers and sisters who rely on healthcare and its infrastructure’s support throughout...
by Danny Sands, MD | Jun 1, 2015 |
Ever since the formation of the Society for Participatory Medicine we have discussed curating and sharing resources about participatory medicine. The resources might be videos, websites, blog posts, tutorials, and other online resources that could benefit patients,...
#BMJDebate tweetchat: “terms of engagement” for patient voices, noon Thursday ETJuly 12, 2017
Millenson in BMJ: When “patient centred” is no longer enough: the challenge of collaborative healthJuly 7, 2017
Webinar today, 11am ET: Increasing patient involvement in assessing new treatmentsJuly 5, 2017
What My 90-Year-Old Mom Taught Me About the Future of AI In Health Care (WBUR)June 21, 2017
RIP: Larry Weed, MD the creator of the Problem-Oriented Medical RecordJune 19, 2017
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