The past January 29th, the Institute for Patient Experience in Spain organized the first meeting with patient associations using the world café format. The goal was to know better patients associations’ needs as well as establishing a closer and more personal relationship beyond the institutional framework. For this reason we chose the nice Café Figueroa in […]
In the last post of 2015 we discussed about participatory medicine as a future trend that is becoming more and more important in everyday practice. Indeed, it would be more correct to talk about participatory healthcare, since patient work has not only impact on therapeutic or clinical aspects but also on processes, management or prevention. […]
Can medicine be participatory? What can the real impact of patient’s voice be regarding treatments, clinical trials and other domains traditionally belonging to a highly specialised science? Is participatory medicine limited to e-patient’s influence, like David DeBronkhart, which is very powerful, but at the end another form to create opinion? Or to the contrary is […]