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New #S4PM tweetchat series kicks off Saturday 9/14 at 3pm Eastern

by Ileana Balcu | Sep 11, 2013

SPM is launching a tweetchat series this Saturday, Sept. 14 at 3pm Eastern, 7pm GMT (use The World Clock [link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html] to find your time zone). The chat will be led by Casey Quinlan, @MightyCasey; Ileana Balcu,...

A parent speaks: “Our child’s disease is OUR disease”

by Susannah Fox | Jul 19, 2013

Susannah: On June 14, 2013, I attended the National Meeting on Promoting and Sustaining Collaborative Networks in Pediatrics where we discussed topics covered in a special issue of Pediatrics, among other initiatives and trends. Justin Vandergrift was one of the...

Partnering with patients – about patient centered RESEARCH METHODS

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 24, 2013

This is a long post, but it strikes deep to the core of the transformation underway in medicine, even in the science that drives medicine. It appears the world is starting to change, in a very good way. We’ve often written about the changing culture of medicine,...

HIMSS and S4PM collaborative – Advise us!

by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 7, 2013

As you see in Sarah Krug’s letter above, HIMSS and S4PM entered into a collaboration. I sit (with Ileana Balcu) on HIMSS’ eConnecting with Consumers Committee where we advocated for this partnership. Everyone on the Committee could be a member of S4PM, as...

The Case for Being On Top of Your Case

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 27, 2013

Guest post by Elaine Waples, one of our new (today) members of SPM (with her husband Brian Klepper). This story illustrates one of the core dysfunctions in American medicine today – lack of coordination – and makes a compelling case for patients and...

Our latest “doctor as e-patient”: SPM member Leana Wen

by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2013

It’s less common today but people used to think empowered patients were anti-doctor. One part of our response on this blog was to point out the many clinicians who are e-patients themselves, as in Let’s hear it for the d-patient e-patients (with dozens of...