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 […]
In late summer we published the experience of a brave team of nurses and technologists, that co-designed an app for kidney patients together with patients. Today we bring the story of a stroke patient, whose recovery experience lead to an app to help others to recover from a stroke. A true case of patient co-creation driven […]