{"id":18193,"date":"2016-01-21T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=18193"},"modified":"2022-12-16T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T16:31:14","slug":"nejm-opens-access-time-for-a-patient-driven-health-information-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2016\/01\/nejm-opens-access-time-for-a-patient-driven-health-information-economy.html","title":{"rendered":"NEJM opens access – discuss! Time for a Patient-Driven Health Information Economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>A Twitter chat this morning, prompted by<\/a> SPM member John Sharp, produced a rapid and wonderful change in an ongoing problem: so often articles\u00a0about\u00a0<\/em>patients aren’t\u00a0open\u00a0<\/em>to patients. In this case it’s an intriguing new article today in the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine: “Time for a Patient-Driven Health Information Economy?”<\/a><\/p>\n Well, tweets sent to lead author Ken Mandl led within an hour to them opening access!<\/p>\n Your assignment: go make it worth their effort<\/strong> – go read it,\u00a0think<\/em>, and if you have something to contribute on the subject, comment! (That’s the “Submit a Letter” link on the sidebar, as shown below. Or, of course, discussion here is welcome, or on Twitter, or Facebook, or LinkedIn – publishers love it when their articles get traction on social media.)<\/p>\n A special hat tip for wisecracking goes to SPM Board Member at Large Peter Elias, a recently retired primary care physician, for popping up on Facebook with the New Yorker cartoon below. :-)<\/p>\n Seriously – go read.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Twitter chat this morning, prompted by SPM member John Sharp, produced a rapid and wonderful change in an ongoing problem: so often articles\u00a0about\u00a0patients aren’t\u00a0open\u00a0to patients. In this case it’s an intriguing new article today in the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine: “Time for a Patient-Driven Health Information Economy?” Well, tweets sent to lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,7],"tags":[2277,7776,658,55,3592],"coauthors":[8070],"class_list":["post-18193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-issues","category-positive-patterns","tag-john-sharp","tag-ken-mandl","tag-new-england-journal","tag-patients","tag-spm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n