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A Patient-Centric Definition of Participatory Medicine

by Gilles Frydman | Apr 2, 2010

Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners. This new definition devised by the board of the Society of...

Video message to medical students learning Medicine 2.0

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 26, 2010

Last week we posted a request from Dr. Bertalan Meskó for video messages from e-patients to his “Medicine 2.0” course. Here’s my submission. (This is my first “vlog” (video blog) so the quality’s not great – like everything...

NPSF’s magnificent Universal Patient Compact

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 23, 2010

Updated 3/12/2014 with new links at bottom. One of my personal pleasures in the first year of the Society for Participatory Medicine has been discovering people in other parts of the “patient culture” who’ve been doing wonderful, empowering,...

Why is participatory medicine such a tough sell?

by Susannah Fox | Mar 22, 2010

Kevin A. Clauson, Pharm.D. is an associate professor at the College of Pharmacy and adjunct associate professor at the College of Medicine – Biomedical Informatics Program at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He teaches a course on Consumer Health...

e-Patients, send video messages to @Berci’s med students

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 19, 2010

If you haven’t found him yet, Bertalan Meskó is one of the best new-generation doctors making the most of social media. While he was still a med student his ScienceRoll blog won Blogger’s Choice in 2007, and last month it won Medgadget’s prestigious...

What would a checklist for patients look like?

by e-Patient Dave | Mar 17, 2010

This springs up from a Twitter discussion this morning. It’s Atul Gawande’s fault, for his book “Checklists.” :-) Forward-thinking clinicians are doing it; participatory patients should to. Let’s get to work. Checklists in hospitals can...