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Journal of Participatory Medicine Launches at Connected Health

Jon Lebkowsky | October 21, 2009

Press release for the October 22nd launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine: Improving health care: Journal of Participatory Medicine will document methods that work for patient/provider collaboration Launch at Connected Health Symposium features essays by visionaries in health care, Internet, high tech, business, and sociology Patient engagement and patient empowerment are popular topics, with [...]

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#WhyPM?

Gilles Frydman | October 13, 2009

Note: if you do not use Twitter an explanation of this post’s title may be in order. #WhyPM is the Twitter hashtag we have been using collectively to announce the launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and to mention topics of interest from the Journal and the Internet. So what is Participatory Medicine? Simply [...]

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Why the Journal of Participatory Medicine?

e-Patient Dave | October 12, 2009

Next week at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston, the Society for Participatory Medicine will launch its new journal. In keeping with the society’s spirit of physician-patient partnership, the Co-Editors in Chief are a physician and a patient: Charlie Smith MD (the primary physician of our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson) and Jessie Gruman, Ph.D., who [...]