by e-Patient Dave | Dec 17, 2015
Big news: a multi-foundation $10 million grant will spread OpenNotes access to fifty million more patients! Nearly 20% of America will have full access to their providers’ visit notes, so they can review them from anywhere! Regular readers know we’ve...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 13, 2015
As SPM advances the cause of patients as responsible drivers of their care, we sometimes hear denials or complaints from physicians who feel that e-patients needy, uninformed, self-centered burdens on busy clinicians’ time. Well, here’s a juicy...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 10, 2015
One pillar of participatory medicine, as SPM co-chair Dr. Danny Sands often says, is access to our medical records: “How can patients participate if they can’t see what I see??” But a major impediment to free-flowing information is incompetence or...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 2, 2015
Our society’s open-access Journal of Participatory Medicine has not gotten enough play, so to speak, on this blog. Let’s try posting something about each article as it emerges. Email subscribers will receive them like any other post; online these posts...
by Nancy Finn | Nov 4, 2015
According to a report in the BMJ Quality and Safety Journal, each year in the U.S. approximately 12 million adults or 1 out of 20 patients who seek outpatient medical care, are misdiagnosed in a way that could cause severe harm. These alarming statistics are further...
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