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“Lighting Goes to Ground”: Peter Elias responds to Paul Levy in JoPM

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 10, 2015

Perhaps it’s time for an argument about how we’re doing this. Many of us in the Society for Participatory Medicine have long noted that what we’re up to here is nothing less than full-bore culture change. In my own speeches I often note that culture...

SPM survey in Times Square: “Americans believe their medical data should be shared with their providers”

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...

Leveraging Technology to Improve Health

by Nancy Finn | Mar 24, 2015

Providing apropriate health care is a challenge in remote areas of developing and developed nations, where skilled professional health personnel and facilities are limited. However, e-health, with tools to redesign care models around the common needs of discrete...

NLM Director Donald Lindberg is retiring. Speak up: what’s next for the Library?

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 17, 2015

Dr. Donald Lindberg, long-time director of the National Library of Medicine, is surely the single most-quoted authority from “Doc Tom” Ferguson’s e-Patient White Paper. In almost every speech I’ve given in the past five years I’ve used...

Big BMJ supplement on Patient Centred Care – with many SPM and MedX voices

by e-Patient Dave | Feb 11, 2015

This is a great week for SPM, for our colleagues at the Stanford Medicine X conference, and for everyone else who’s been working for years to shift medicine’s thinking about the role of the patient: Yesterday the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal)...