by Kathleen O'Malley | Mar 13, 2012
Guest blogger Susan Woods, a physician and SPM board member, urges patients to help shape PCORI’s draft National Priorities for Research and initial Research Agenda, and offers her own comments here. The public comment period ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 15....
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 22, 2011
One of the highlights of 2011 for me was the introduction in May (see our post) of the Engagement Behavior Framework by SPM member (and JoPM founding co-editor) Jesse Gruman. She and her team methodically identified 43 behaviors to be done by an engaged patient or...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 14, 2011
In any movement there’s a stage of maturation, where aspirations get fleshed out with specifics. That time is arriving for participatory medicine. As patient engagement (aka consumer engagement) Â earns attention, the question increasingly arises: “Where do...
by e-Patient Dave | Sep 29, 2011
Yesterday the New York Times reported that some health insurers have applied to regulatory agencies to push premiums sharply higher – usually double-digit increases, while citizens are suffering.  This falls on top of the 11 year history reported last year by...
by Kathleen O'Malley | Sep 25, 2011
Guest blogger Beth Austin shares her professional and personal advice on choosing the right doctor. She is the principal of Crescendo Consulting Group. I’ve spent a lot of time in my professional life knee-deep in articles on healthcare quality and medical...
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