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My Mother’s Scrap of Paper

My Mother’s Scrap of Paper

I’m known in social media for my role as @EMRAnswers. Most people don’t know the personal and family pain that makes me know how important this is. Here it is. (That’s me above, sharing my story at the Walking Gallery meetup at HIMSS in 2015 –...
Learning More from ‘Less is More’ Medicine

Learning More from ‘Less is More’ Medicine

(part three of three) Lessons from Quebec for Choosing Wisely and Less is More Medicine After a busy few days tracking topics around the researchers and policy-makers at a recent “Preventing Overdiagnosis” conference in Quebec aimed at reducing...

A hackathon for Open Access?? Check it out!

We’ve often written here about open access medical literature (freely available) vs “paywalled” journals. It’s a controversial subject, and this guest post is about an idea I’ve never heard of: a hackathon to explore the subject. (In the...
Pharma TV ads: Film at 11

Pharma TV ads: Film at 11

SPM members Randi Oster of Help Me Health and Casey Quinlan of Mighty Casey Media made up two thirds of a three woman panel, “Patient Leaders Want To Kill Pharma TV Ads, Right Now,” at the 2016 ePharma Summit in New York last week (February 29 through...

#epatient – Are Millennials Born That Way?

Reposted from the Mighty Mouth blog Most of the people I meet in my voyages ’round healthcare system transformation, grassroots edition, arrived at the portal of #epatient via a trip through the medical-industrial complex. Either they, or someone they cared for, wound...

Anniversary of a health data earthquake

Four years ago this week, e-Patient Dave published, “Imagine someone had been managing your data, and then you looked,” and forever changed the national conversation about health data. I have described that post as an earthquake — a surprise to those...

BMJ commentary: “Enlist the patients’ help”

Tessa Richards, assistant editor at the British Medical Journal, has posted a well reasoned commentary on the BMJ site, “Enlist the patients’ help.” I’m no expert on the UN’s work here but what we seem to be seeing is, once again,...

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