e-Patients Blog
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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,...
Let’s bring “e-patient” to geriatrics
At the extraordinary Stanford Medicine X conference I connected with SPM member Leslie Kernisan (Twitter @GeriTechBlog), a geriatrician who's deeply interested in and committed to enabling elders and caregivers through patient and family engagement. We recorded a...
SPM is hiring a Development Director
The Society for Participatory Medicine is hiring and looking for an experienced Director of Development. Are you interested or do you know someone in your network who might be? Here's the information & instructions on how to apply:...
Expanding HIPAA Rights: Lab Test Results to Come Under the Big Tent
[Note added by e-Patient Dave: this is such a big deal that I'm taking the rude step of adding highlights [bold] to Attorney Harlow's post!] We're inching closer to promulgation of final regulations that will likely make all lab test results more easily accessible to...
Monday: Watch the Consumer Health IT Summit live. Our time is here!
Monday Sept. 16 is the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit. That means we, the patients, are the focus - we and our data, of course! - along with the providers (doctors, nurses, practices, hospitals) who serve us. You can watch live, online, without prior registration. But...
Flip the Flip
Guest blogger Natasha Gajewski participated in the Flip the Clinic meeting at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Below are her observations about the meeting and a thought you might consider. Â Natasha is an e-Patient and the developer of Symple, a symptom journal for...
New #S4PM tweetchat series kicks off Saturday 9/14 at 3pm Eastern
SPM is launching a tweetchat series this Saturday, Sept. 14 at 3pm Eastern, 7pm GMT (use The World Clock [link: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html] to find your time zone). The chat will be led by Casey Quinlan, @MightyCasey; Ileana Balcu,...
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...
