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Author Anna Quindlen asks medical schools: do you really know your patients?
Any of us would probably have paid to be at the gathering of over 1000 medical school deans, faculty and residents at last week's American Association of Medical College's (AAMC) meeting to hear Anna Quindlen deliver her speech, Healthcare in an Age of Information:...
Patients in Power conference in Athens
Latest update below: 7:39 a.m. ET On my personal site I'm blogging about the second annual Patients In Power conference happening today and tomorrow in Athens, Greece, organized by SPM member Kathi Apostolidis. 7:39 a.m. ET - The European Charter of Patients Rights...
Monthly introduction to e-Patients.net
This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn.  Here's how to become a Society member, individual or corporate. Our publications: This...
Major cover story in Healthcare IT News
Healthcare IT News is one of the most important - if not the most important - health IT publications. With readership of 54,000, it's seen by a lot of important "eyeballs," as they say in marketing. And in this time of critical change, as medical record systems roll...
How do we know that social media is important to health care?
A cross-post from susannahfox.com... On Friday, I spoke at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, along with Kevin Pho, MD. During a planning call, the symposium organizers had shared results from a faculty survey: Fully two-thirds do not use social tools on a...
Rainbow Button – 2013 Edition
Meaningful Use Stage 2 includes the requirement that health care providers with EHRs seeking Meaningful Use incentive dollars demonstrate that 5% of patients actually view, download or transmit their data. The HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Rule, which is now fully in effect...
A Powerful Union – Relationships within Health Team
The relationship between health team members, especially people and their clinicians and caregivers, frequently arises as a topic of this blog. Let me share with you one of the values of Advocates. Â I work for Advocates as VP of Quality. Â We express our values...
Janice McCallum’s Interview at StrataRx – About #GMDD and #SPM
Guest blogger Janice McCallum shared her interview from the StrataRx conference. Janice McCallum is a health data strategist at Health Content Advisors. Her blog and tweets (@janicemccallum) reflect her focus on the value of information to all healthcare stakeholders...
Join #s4pm tweetchat Saturday 10/12 at 3pm ET
We're organizing a tweetchat this Saturday - October 12 at 3 PM ET to welcome MedX partcipants into the Society for Participatory Medicine. We will discuss our communications tools, and other topics of interset to our members: e-patients, health care social media, and...
Tango as metaphor for doctor/patient relations: Patients 2.0 – Kathy Kastner
Guest blogger Kathy Kastner gives us an overview of the Patients 2.0 session at the Health 2.0 conference. Kathy Kastner is Blogger and Curator for bestendings.com and ability4life.com I was so pleased to have SPM president, Sarah Krug, invite me to present at...
Monthly introduction to e-Patients.net
This is our monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Follow the Society on Twitter (@S4PM), Facebook, and LinkedIn.  Here's how to become a Society member, individual or corporate. Our publications: This...
Engage! HIMSS book documents the *real* value of patient engagement (through SPM members and dual members)
In our society's work (home page quote: "promoting the concept of participatory medicine"), one thing we do is connect with others in this vast industry. Friendships and alliances are how we spread the word and evangelize our view of the future of medicine. (Frankly,...