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“Sister” Organization! AACH: American Academy of Communication in Healthcare

by Danny van Leeuwen | Jun 24, 2016

SPM member Danny van Leeuwen is @HealthHats on Twitter. Last week I attended the American Academy of Communication in Healthcare (AACH) Conference in New Haven – 2016 ENRICH Healthcare Communication Course and Research Forum at Yale, entitled, Diverse Voices, Common...

In our journal: exploration of gardening to foster engagement in stroke patients

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 23, 2016

A new article in our Journal of Participatory Medicine explores an area that apparently has had no prior literature: the effect of gardening on how well stroke patients engage in their care. From the abstract: Five main themes were identified from interviews and...

“It’s not about the car – it’s about the drive.” #OpenAPS standing ovation for Mark Wilson.

by e-Patient Dave | Jun 17, 2016

This may be THE most important, articulate speech I’ve seen about profound progress in patient power – and why it matters. This talk by Mark Wilson about OpenAPS, at last Friday’s DiabetesMine D-Data ExChange 2016, contains a metaphor that’s...

OpenNotes study in BMJ Quality & Safety finds patient-doctor “relational benefits”

by e-Patient Dave | May 24, 2016

As regular readers know, we’ve written many times about OpenNotes, the project funded by Robert Wood Johnson that blew the doors off of beliefs that bad things happen when patients see their charts. (We blogged about the original results in 2012.) Now a new...

Sara Riggare: “The new kind of patients challenge healthcare”

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 4, 2016

SPM member Sara Riggare is a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and a member of the BMJ’s Patient Advisory Panel. She has Parkinson Disease, and is highly proactive in dealing with it. One thing some Parkinson patients do is non-contact boxing,...