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Nancy Finn: How Do Patients Make Good Choices?
Guest blogger Nancy B. Finn is a writer and thought leader on the impact of digital communication on organizational behavior, health care, and patient care. When you go to the supermarket, it is fairly easy to make good choices about which cereal or fruit to purchase....
Our Society is hiring: Executive Director
This is the blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine. Since its inception, the Society has been an entirely volunteer organization, the only exception being the Managing Editor of our Journal. While this was generally fine in the early days, we have grown and...
Why asking what treatment will cost matters
In yet another terrific discussion on our members' listserv, Casey Quinlan of Mighty Casey Media (Twitter @MightyCasey, @CancerForXmas) gave powerful voice to a patient's perspective on controlling medical costs. I asked her to write it up. Go, Casey! First, let me...
What’s in a (disease) name?
I witnessed an intriguing Twitter conversation between Christy Collins and Greg Biggers about disease names, so I asked Christy to write up her thoughts. It is an honor to host this guest post: By Christy Collins When I started an advocacy and research organization...
The internet’s downsides: tell us your stories
This is a request for help finding people who have had bad experiences with online health resources. Let me first say that the internet is often a positive force in people's lives. My own organization's research can paint a rather rosy picture: teens are mostly kind...
Monthly introduction to e-Patients.net, blog of the Society for Participatory Medicine
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 blog...
@Ahier on Stage 2 Meaningful Use rules
SPM member Brian Ahier @Ahier is one of the best known and most respected voices for patient engagement in the "health IT geek" world. He's Health IT Evangelist for Information Systems at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles, Oregon, which is a Planetree...
Final weeks: Register & attend Regina’s “Partnership WITH Patients” conference
Yes, "Regina" - you know who I mean.:-) You know someone's a star in the firmament when they gain first-name status. (Especially in healthcare, where "the other Regina" happens to be Surgeon General!) As we reported here in June, Regina Holliday has led a band of...
New IOM Report To Be Released Sept 6 (webcast)
Our friend Jim Conway, revered advocate for better care, writes: To my colleagues in the patient and family centered care, personal and public engagement community. On September 6th the IOM will release a new report on building a learning healthcare system, “Best Care...
#S4PM #BigData Tweetchat on Wed Aug 29 – 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT
On Wed 8/29/20012 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT please join us for a Tweetchat hosted by SPM member Janice McCallum @janicemccallum about Big Data in Healthcare. One good way to participate is to use the website http://tweetchat.com/room/s4pm Go to the site at the right time,...
“Mind the Gap” on patient engagement: uck, “What???” and the scapegoat disconnect
Over on Mind The Gap, Steve Wilkins (Twitter) has a poster about patient engagement that annoyed me:-) right out of the box - because although I pretty much like everything he does, the poster starts with what I find to be the ouchiest mental disconnect in all of...
State of the Meme, summer 2012
We're not in it for "the eyeballs," as they say in the world of website marketing: this isn't a blog that obsesses about pageviews, unique visitors etc, for purposes of selling ads. (We don't do ads, we don't do link exchanges, etc.) But the Society for Participatory...
