by Nancy Finn | Jul 30, 2015
On July 30, 2015, Medicare and Medicaid will celebrate their 50th birthday. In August of 2015 Social Security, celebrates its 80th birthday. Amendments to the Social Security Act (Title XIX) that established guaranteed basic health coverage programs for all elderly,...
by Nancy Finn | Jul 1, 2015
We have read and heard a lot about the disparities in the cost of care from one hospital or clinic to another. We have read and heard a lot of grumbling about the uneven availability of health care services in this country. Many of us have been outraged to learn that...
by e-Patient Dave | May 19, 2015
SPM co-founder and co-chair Dr. Danny Sands is appointed our first representative On Friday the following notice was distributed to members of our Society for Participatory Medicine. What a wonderful sign of medicine’s growing acceptance of the importance of...
by Casey Quinlan | May 8, 2015
This came over my transom from a friend who works with a major medical school’s digital publishing group. Seems both relevant, and high impact. – Casey Seasons Change by Candace Barnes i. When I left for the hospital The night was bitter cold, And snow...
by e-Patient Dave | Apr 8, 2015
National Survey Also Shows 87% Think Health Information Exchange Should be Free First paragraph updated next day In case you missed it last month, there was an unprecedented, huge moment in SPM’s history – we collaborated in a national survey of...
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