Healthcare as Collaboration: Using Participatory Medicine to Cure What Ails Healthcare (Recorded at Pri-Med Southwest)

Healthcare as Collaboration: Using Participatory Medicine to Cure What Ails Healthcare (Recorded at Pri-Med Southwest) is organized by Pri-Med.

Release Date: 5/3/2019
Expiration Date: 5/3/2022

Topics:
Patient Communications

Overview:
For four decades, leading physicians have called patients the most under-used resource in healthcare, a sentiment amplified by statements like "Nothing about me without me." But slogans alone don’t cause change, and the time has come to teach clinicians (and patients/caregivers) to evolve healthcare in the internet age and to seek the evidence, rationale, and theoretical basis for these practices. While many patients are not yet "e-patients" (empowered and engaged), new care models are emerging and real. When new methods are understood and developed, the workload can be rebalanced, and the results can be more fulfilling for all. This unconventional keynote will be shared, fittingly, by the best-known exemplars of this new model: stage IV cancer survivor "e-Patient Dave" deBronkart and his physician, Dr. Danny Sands. They are two of the co-founders of the Society for Participatory Medicine and co-authors of "Let Patients Help: A Patient Engagement Handbook." Participants will learn about the transformative and potentially disruptive movement of participatory medicine, and they will leave informed -- even empowered -- to take effective new actions on behalf of their patients. 

Learning Objectives:
• State three examples of what the "e" in e-patient represents
• Explain the three complementary types of information that patients need
• Review five best practices for use of the EHR in the exam room
• Explain why involving patients in clinical decisions is important
• Name three ways health care professionals can ease into the practice of participatory medicine.