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A Lifetime of Participatory Medicine Can Start With Maternity Care

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 30, 2009

As promised yesterday, here is Amy Romano’s guest post for our series leading up to the Oct. 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine. Amy is a nurse-midwife and advocate for mother-friendly maternity care. An expert in research analysis, she manages...

Keep an eye out for tomorrow morning’s post

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 29, 2009

In our “Why Participatory Medicine” series, leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, tomorrow’s guest post will be a special treat for me. It contains a breakthrough insight about participatory medicine, and...

Journal of Participatory Medicine and e-Patients

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 29, 2009

A guest post by John Sharp of the Cleveland Clinic: If you have not read the e-Patient White Paper, you do not understand the future of medicine. Being an e-Patient is beyond being empowered. The subtitle of the paper, “How they can help us heal healthcare,” describes...

Social media and healthcare: hospitals lead

by Jon Lebkowsky | Sep 28, 2009

A signal moment has happened: When a major business authority with no history in healthcare speaks up about a shift in the wind, it’s worth noting. And this time it’s a great sign for participatory medicine, because the news is that hospitals are engaging...

What Participatory Medicine can learn from a $2,467 phone bill

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 27, 2009

Fair warning: in the weeks leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, just about everything you see here is going to tie in to the society and journal. A fundamental tenet of PM is that patients (ordinary citizens, toi et moi) have...

Participatory Medicine around the world: the Seven Preliminary Conclusions reach India

by e-Patient Dave | Sep 26, 2009

A Google alert popped up today, saying that a participatory physician in India had cited this blog. Don’t we love it when social media let empowering information spread! It’s exactly what our founder “Doc Tom” predicted with his now-famous 1995...