The “Snapshot of People’s Engagement in Their Health Care” (http://www.cfah.org/pdfs/CFAH_Snapshot_Abridged_2010.pdf) issued by the Center for Advancing Health (CFAH) provides an analysis of the actions people take (and don’t take) to benefit from the care available to them.
Read MoreIn our new world of instant information exchange and empowered patients, how are clinicians and empowered patients challenging traditional ways to collect, evaluate, and publish evidence?
Read MoreThe Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM) seeks to foster a community of cooperative health care. The opportunity is to create a forum for recognizing commonality while sharing differences. Another journal, the Annals of Family Medicine, also launched in the information age, provides some parallels for engaging diverse constituencies in an international transdisciplinary dialogue around scientific papers, essays, reviews and commentary. JoPM has great potential to be a gathering place for those interested in interactive approaches to improving health care and health.
Read MoreIn America, we often do a terrible job of managing the death process. Some 80% of Americans die either in the hospital or in nursing homes, deprived of the knowledge and information they need to manage their own deaths, unaware of their options. However, if asked, patients tend to reject aggressive treatment in favor of gentler care aimed at minimizing symptoms.
Read MoreParticipatory medicine (PM) is facilitated by technology, but a purely technical analysis of their interaction provides only a partial picture. Drawing on a rich body of social science research, this article examines how both socio-cultural and biological perspectives lend additional context and a deeper understanding of the role of technology in PM.
Read MoreThe “Snapshot of People’s Engagement in Their Health Care” (http://www.cfah.org/pdfs/CFAH_Snapshot_Abridged_2010.pdf) issued by the Center for Advancing Health (CFAH) provides an analysis of the actions people take (and don’t take) to benefit from the care available to them.
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Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners.
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