by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | Aug 20, 2009
e-Patients.net is an ongoing project of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Participatory medicine is a cooperative model of healthcare that encourages and expects active involvement by all connected parties (patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, etc.)...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 20, 2009
Kevin Kruse posted a video yesterday which includes this line:Â The age of participatory medicine has begun. It’s a promo for e-Patients Connections 2009, a conference to be held in Philadelphia this October, but also has good citations (ahem, including my...
by Charlie Smith | Jul 22, 2009
The nascent field of Participatory Medicine is currently in the “debating and defining” stage.   It has been tentatively defined by the steering group of the Journal of Participatory Medicine as: …a cooperative model of health care that encourages...
by Susannah Fox | Jul 8, 2009
The poli-tech tribe gathered in New York last week for the Personal Democracy Forum and, as Craig Newmark put it, welcomed “our new nerd overlords.” Esther Dyson, Jamie Heywood, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and I were asked to take on a breakout panel...
by Charlie Smith | Jun 16, 2009
Tom Davenport, in a Harvard Business Publishing Blog post, does a nice job of discussing the merging of “Health 2.0”, the aggregate of online communities, wiki’s, bloggers, and tweets, with the role of traditional medical providers. He asks whether,...
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