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An Easy Way we can Help Encourage Healthcare Conferences to Include Patients & Advocates

Society for Participatory Medicine

I have attended hundreds of conferences: patient experience, patient education, health tech, health literacy, shared decision making — and the best part has always been meeting other advocates, patients, and family caregivers. I think again of ePatient Dave’s refrain: “Let Patients Help!”. The cost is simply too high. P < 001).

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Doc Tom Awardees Announced at SPM2018 Conference

Society for Participatory Medicine

On October 17th, the Society enjoyed their 2nd conference in Boston. His spirt and work led to the creation of the Society , though his peers & followers, ePatient Scholars. The first award for contribution to SPM was a shared award – to Dave “ePatient Dave” DeBronkart and Dr. Danny Sands.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

How to take a “patient-first” approach with GenAI – learning from the World Economic Forum At the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2024, WEF heavily focused in on AI and its implications and prospects for society and many vertical markets, including health care.

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Thinking About Isaiah, User-Centered Design, and Healthcare – Heard at Health 2.0

Health Populi

Conference, convening this week in Santa Clara for its 13th year in existence. I know that to be true, because I was there with them in spirit and on phone calls (no Skype back then), brainstorming what this conference/movement could look like. “We We’re going beyond ePatient Dave’s demand of “Give me my damned data (data about me).”

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#CochraneForAll + #BeyondTheRoom = #PatientsIncluded on blast

Society for Participatory Medicine

, and the other was being selected to be part of the Beyond The Room team for the conference. For four days in September, my old life (net news producer) and my new life (epatient citizen scientist policy wonk storming the barricades in service of systemic shift) meshed into a perfect little machine.