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Shared Decision Making in Imaging: How Should Patients and Physicians Discuss the Costs of Care?

by Sarah Krüg | Apr 7, 2017

The Society for Participatory Medicine is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the American College of Radiology to present an important topic in healthcare at the next Learning Exchange, which will take place on April 19, 2017, 2-3PM EST. Join us as...

“Words that annoy, phrases that grate”: BMJ Patient Panel post & tweetchat

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 7, 2017

We’ve written often here about the BMJ’s leadership on not just listening to patients but looking at healthcare from the patient’s perspective. Their patient partnership campaign, launched in 2014, includes a patient advisory panel that works...

Service Agreements Among Friends and Colleagues

by Danny van Leeuwen | Mar 23, 2017

I’m an old hippie [left]. I’ve lived in many houses and on a farm (commune?) with other people. Regularly we heard, “I agreed to what? No I didn’t.” “Since when is that a rule?” I, and then my wife and I, developed skill in...

Dell Medical School and the Future of Care

by Jon Lebkowsky | Feb 20, 2017

In 2009, along with several physicians, patients and health activists, I helped form the Society for Participatory Medicine, a nonprofit promoting “a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in...

Person-Centered #CarePlanning – What data?

by Danny van Leeuwen | Jan 4, 2017

Last month, in Communicate What? #CarePlanning, I declared the #CarePlanning hashtag, and told from personal experience the importance of communication in enabling participatory care. I ended with this – my perspective as the person who has the problem and the...