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Medication Management: Experience of Engaged Clinicians and Empowered Patients

by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 26, 2013

The overlap between the clinical aspects of our health journey and behavior of health team members occurs most often in medication management. Effective medication management depends on empowered, informed patients and caregivers prepared for clinician visits, and...

Examples, please: peer-to-peer healthcare

by Susannah Fox | Jun 27, 2011

I’m writing an article and would love to tap into this community’s knowledge. I know of a few examples of clinical practices using Facebook and Twitter to connect with patients, such as MacArthur OB/GYN, but I’d love to learn about other examples,...

The Evidence for and Experience of Engaging in Health Care: Jessie Gruman’s powerful speech at ICSI

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 1, 2011

Ten days ago a post here mentioned the 14th ICSI / IHI Colloquium. I said the Society for Participatory Medicine was well represented, including: Jessie Gruman, four time cancer patient and founding co-editor of our journal, gave an important breakout session, about...

A Health Information Divide

by Susannah Fox | Feb 1, 2011

This post is first and foremost a thank-you note. Thank you to everyone who posted a comment, emailed me, or tweeted a suggestion in response to my request for input last July: Crowdsourcing a Survey. Six new topics came directly from those conversations. Thank you to...

Calling All Physicians: Support the Participatory Medicine Movement

by Danny Sands, MD | Mar 10, 2010

Participatory Medicine is a new paradigm in healthcare, one that promises to enhance healthcare efficiency, transform the experience for both the patient and their providers, and improve healthcare outcomes. This cultural shift requires adaptation among healthcare...