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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. Including patients and advocates is a good way to broaden their reach.

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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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Doc Tom Awardees Announced at SPM2018 Conference

Society for Participatory Medicine

On October 17th, the Society enjoyed their 2nd conference in Boston. “Doc Tom” Ferguson (1943 – 2006) was a Family Medicine physician, a visionary and pioneer who sought to empower patients to use online resources, embraced patient contribution, and aimed for professionals to be equal partners with patients.