by e-Patient Dave | Feb 28, 2020 |
Now this is patient-centered care. This may be the most wonderful participatory innovation I’ve seen since OpenNotes in 2012. This one’s completely different: OpenNotes is about patient access to the medical record, but this one invites patients to see...
by Sue Woods | Oct 29, 2018 |
On October 17th, the Society enjoyed their 2nd conference in Boston. Filling a larger room than last year, attendees – in person and virtual – enjoyed an impressive lineup of speakers. The passion in the room was palpable. Much more to come on that. A...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 13, 2018 |
Email subscribers, I’m not sure the video below will come through to you – if it doesn’t, click the headline to come see it online. http://www.wtnh.com/ct-style/the-better-health-conference-helping-to-change-healthcare-as-we-know-it/1236774613 Last...
by e-Patient Dave | Jun 5, 2018 |
Great update 20 months later: UCSF Hospital announced Jan 10, 2020 that they’ve made radiology images available through their MyChart portal, and Dr. Mark Kohli tweeted that it’s due to the speech that resulted from this blog post! Here’s their...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 25, 2018 |
The health IT sphere is abuzz with Apple’s groundbreaking announcement yesterday of the new ability, in the beta version of iOS 11.3, to download lab results, allergies, “problem lists,” etc. from multiple hospitals. So far twelve hospitals have...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 17, 2018 |
This is a long overdue post of the next session from our Society’s first conference on October 25. The first keynote, about OpenNotes, was posted here, including this note: WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled...
by e-Patient Dave | Jan 16, 2018 |
Guest post by SPM member Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, who is Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services at the University of WashingtonCenter for Pain Relief. We welcome guest posts from SPM members – see guidelines here. I joined the Society for Participatory...
by e-Patient Dave | Aug 3, 2017 |
I’m taking the extraordinary step of rerunning, verbatim, an entire post from 2014 about this important development. Why? Because tomorrow an update is coming, and to fully appreciate the news, you need to appreciate the background. Here’s the original,...
by e-Patient Dave | Mar 2, 2017 |
Do not go look this up. I’ll post the answer tomorrow. We on this blog know Dr. Tom Delbanco as, among other things, the “father” of OpenNotes, along with “co-parent” Jan Walker, RN MBA. (For a history lesson, Tom’s also the lead...
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 31, 2016 |
A large part of the Society for Participatory Medicine’s work is culture change, and that requires pointing to the cultural roots of today’s situation, so that well-meaning people today can understand how we got here, and how absurd today will look in the...
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