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Journal of Participatory Medicine Launches at Connected Health
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 [...]
Read Morepatient networks, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles, Why PM
#WhyPM?
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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A Lifetime of Participatory Medicine Can Start With Maternity Care
As promised yesterday, here is Amy Romano’s guest post for our series leading up to the Oct. 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine. Amy is a nurse-midwife and advocate for mother-friendly maternity care. An expert in research analysis, she manages the Science & Sensibility blog for Lamaze International. Follow her on Twitter: @MidwifeAmy. If [...]
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Keep an eye out for tomorrow morning’s post
In our “Why Participatory Medicine” series, leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, tomorrow’s guest post will be a special treat for me. It contains a breakthrough insight about participatory medicine, and it’s a perfect example of how social media is enabling a wildfire acceleration of the spread of [...]
Read Moremedical records, policy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM
What Participatory Medicine can learn from a $2,467 phone bill
Fair warning: in the weeks leading up to the October 21 launch of the Journal of Participatory Medicine, just about everything you see here is going to tie in to the society and journal. A fundamental tenet of PM is that patients (ordinary citizens, toi et moi) have more to contribute than we’ve ever thought. [...]
Read Morechapter reviews, general, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, trends & principles, Why PM
Participatory Medicine around the world: the Seven Preliminary Conclusions reach India
A Google alert popped up today, saying that a participatory physician in India had cited this blog. Don’t we love it when social media let empowering information spread! It’s exactly what our founder “Doc Tom” predicted with his now-famous 1995 triangle slides: the internet gives us access to information and to each other, which puts [...]
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