Society for Participatory Medicine
e-patients.net blog
Patient Empowerment
e-pts resources, general, PM Tech
Katie Matlack: iOS medical peripherals: convenient and connected
This guest post from Katie Matlack (reposted from the free site Software Advice) launches a new section of e-Patients.net: “PM Tech.” This special branch of e-patient resources is gaining importance as smartphones and tablets become ever more mainstream. Devices that were once just toys for techies are now the favorite tools of many ex-technophobes — [...]
Read Morefound on the net, general, shared decision making
Peter Elias: Empowerment and collaboration
Guest blogger Peter Elias, MD, a family physician, raises some interesting questions about the nature of patient empowerment and explores its implications regarding patient-physician collaboration. This piece originally appeared on the author’s blog, PeterEliasMD (personal observations and perspectives. I was struck last week by a remark in a discussion of patient-centric care: “…patient empowerment is [...]
Read Morefound on the net, JoPM
Book review takes a look at neurofeedback
The Journal of Participatory Medicine has published a review of A Symphony in the Brain, a book that offers a history and overview of neurofeedback, a type of biofeedback that aims to help patients control their brain activity.
Read Moree-patient stories, hc's problem list, pts as teachers, Why PM
Powerful new “Doctor becomes an e-patient” story in Journal of Participatory Medicine
Two years ago we wrote “Let’s hear it for the ‘d-patients’” — doctors who become e-patients themselves. We said “D-patients prove that patient empowerment is anything but anti-doctor. Heck, sometimes it’s a doctor preservation movement.” A new article in our Journal of Participatory Medicine provides a compelling example: A Physician’s Experience as a Cancer of the [...]
Read Moregeneral
2010: The Year of Open Streams & Fax Machines
I started writing this post while watching a livestream of the LeWeb09 conference in Paris and finished it while watching a livestream of TEDxSV. Open Streams are of many kinds and shapes. They are completely changing how we consume information, news & entertainment. .. It could be a joke and it could be funny! Instead, it [...]
Read Moree-pts resources, trends & principles, understanding statistics, Why PM
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 Morenews & gossip, positive patterns, pt/doc co-care, reforming hc, trends & principles, Why PM
Christensen/Hwang: “Power to the Patients” (The Atlantic)
“While other industries take as their focus such shallow concerns as the making of money, the health care profession prides itself on dealing with matters of life and death. But that’s not the only thing distinguishing health care from other industries: it is also unique in the extent to which it excludes consumers from important [...]
Read Moregeneral, policy issues, reforming hc, trends & principles
KQED examines realities of Canadian healthcare
Good piece on NPR this morning about what a KQED correspondent found when she went to Canada and talked to citizens and doctors about their experience of wait times. Click to go to their site and listen. One might ask, what does this have to do with patient empowerment? In my view, one of the [...]
Read More
