Society for Participatory Medicine
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Evidence Based Medicine
found on the net, general, positive patterns, research issues
Patients: Your Researcher Will See You Now!
Guest blogger Susan Woods, a physician and SPM board member, urges patients to help shape PCORI’s draft National Priorities for Research and initial Research Agenda, and offers her own comments here. The public comment period ends at 11:59 pm EST on March 15. Patient voices are needed now! The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) [...]
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Federales finalize Accountable Care Organization regs, define “patient engagement” and “patient-centeredness”
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka the health reform law) added “patient engagement” and “patient-centeredness” to the United States Code’s lexicon. Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized the official definition of these terms for purposes of Accountable Care Organizations that may seek to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. [...]
Read Moregeneral, net-friendly docs, patient networks, positive patterns, trends & principles, Why PM
Health Data is Useful… if it Informs Conversations
Dr. Roni Zeiger, MD is currently Chief Health Strategist at Google where he has helped create and lead Google Health. He continues to see patients on occasional evenings and weekends at a local urgent care center. Roni earned his MD at Stanford and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. [...]
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“Concern that sharing information with patients may cause sustained psychological distress is probably unfounded”
Cross-posted, with prolog, from the blog of Ted Eytan MD. Yesterday the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “WIHI” series hosted a terrific webcast on the Open Notes project that’s being funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (I need to dig up the link to the event’s archive, but I’m in a hurry.) Speakers were Dr. [...]
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