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New ACP center will foster physician-patient collaboration : Internal Medicine News
4 minutes video in which Dr. Steven Weinberger describes why it is important to include patients in creating guidelines and decision-making processes. New ACP center will foster physician-patient collaboration : Internal Medicine News. (requires registration. I just...
Health Information Exchange: We’re not there yet
This post was originally a comment by SPM member Jeffrey Harris on our C-ME post from April 3, 2014. Jeffrey has a long history as a clinician, a health IT strategist, and as a patient. We thought his commentary deserved its own post. I had the opportunity to moderate...
It’s time to C-ME (see me): Consumer Mediated Exchange
By Mark Branning and Brad Tritle Mark Branning is Principal at mdb Healthcare IT Solutions, Adjunct Professor at National University, a member of the HIMSS Connected Patient Committee and co-chair of the Connected Patient Community. Mr. Branning has spent 33 years...
From BMJ: The interdependent roles of patients, families and professionals in cystic fibrosis
Our Member Beth Nash MD recommends this article: This is an incredible article in BMJ Quality & Safety about how patients, families and professionals can (and need to) work together to improve care (in this case, the care of cystic fibrosis patients). Here's a...
New paradigm in data sharing and analysis?
A Perspectives piece I wrote was published this week by iHealthBeat - Unlocking the Power of Health Data. In it I argue for patient-controlled sharing of rich data, as opposed to HIPAA-regulated stripping of identifiers in order to eliminate the risk to patient...
SPM loves Flip The Clinic – we’re an “ally”
The Society for Participatory Medicine enthusiastically supports this new, transformational initiative from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Flip the Clinic. (Don't you love the logo? Turning the clinic on its ear?) It's utterly engaging and empowering to patients,...
An angry veterinarian says “I don’t understand…” (Reprise five years later)
It's five years since the ARRA/HITECH legislation was passed that pretty much mandates that American medicine has to computerize. Policies created since then have been enormously effective at moving adoption forward. We still need vast improvements of the user...
Erin Moore: “Your message did not fall on deaf ears.”
Last week SPM member Erin Moore (see her previous posts) handled an opportunity in Washington really effectively, and she got heard. Here's a cross-post of her news, with permission, from her blog 66 Roses. ______________ Last week I traveled to Washington, DC for two...
“Imagine someone had been managing your money and you thought you weren’t qualified.” (Reprise five years later)
Five years ago last week, I posted this. A lot has changed since then. Next week I'll be re-posting what happened next, back then. The subject is still just as valid, so do think about it. Here's a "reprint": _________________ I want you to think about something for a...
Digital Communication and m-Health in Developing Nations
Approximately 98 % of the world's population are now owners of cellphones, including many adults in remote, hard to reach locations. This proliferation of mobile devices has the potential to improve our ability to diagnose and track disease; to tackle and disseminate...
Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks (PLOS One)
This isn't directly related to participatory medicine per se, but for students of the social web and "health is social" factors, this will be fascinating and important. (In my speaking work, it's always useful to cite new research that sheds light on how social...
Surgeon: “Participatory Medicine encourages partnership between patient and provider”
I now ask all my patients, at the end of our visits, “Did I get it? Did I successfully answer your questions and address your fears?” Dr. Marc Katz is a cardiac surgeon in Richmond Virginia. His op-ed, ‘Participatory Medicine’ encourages partnership between patient...