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A Troubled Trifecta: Peer Review, Academia & Tenure

by | Aug 26, 2010

We welcome Peter Frishauf as an author on our blog. Peter is on the Editorial Board [brief bio] of our Society’s Journal of Participatory Medicine, and as described below, has already authored some important material on this subject. His first post here is...

Librarians and ePatients as Partners

by | Mar 23, 2010

I am thrilled to bring another guest post, this time from Luke Rosenberger, a medical librarian who has forcefully embraced social media & participatory medicine, as you’ll see. Libraries & librarians have always held a special place in helping other...

Superheroes and rock stars at the Institute of Medicine

by | Oct 14, 2009

Update: National Cancer Policy Forum published a book based on the workshop, A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care, which you can buy, read online for free, or download as a PDF. The discussion portion of this panel was...

Crowdsourcing the Definition of Participatory Medicine

by | Oct 15, 2008

“Crowdsourcing: the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.” Jeff Howe Or in other words Participatory Outsourcing. There is clearly...

Taxpayer Access: The NIH Public Access Policy

by | Sep 30, 2008

Every year, the U.S. federal government funds more than $29 billion in biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The research, which inspires about 80,000 individual articles (each year), is then published in journals that only subscribers...

Wikis: Cautionary Tale 2.0

by | Jan 31, 2008

Everybody is talking about social networks, collective intelligence, wisdom of crowds, smartmobs, User Generated Content and other “2.0” terms. It almost sounds like the only recipe to create the next big idea in the medical internet is to use a few of...

Two Views on e-Patients, and the Doctors who See Them

by | Jan 15, 2008

In November 2007, Scott Haig, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and medical columnist for TIME, wrote an article for the magazine called “When the Patient is a Googler”. He described a patient of his he called Susan, whom he felt was emblematic of patients who research...

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