July 19th 2012

8:30a PST

Present: Alan G., Terry G., Danny S., Indu S., Michael M., Gonzalo G., Dave dB., David L., Sarah K., Deb L.
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• Welcome  (Alan)
• Approval of Jan 19th 2012 Minutes (Deb)
• Membership and financial update (John and Danny – 10 min)
• Board election/structure discussion (Alan – 15 minutes)
  • Contact Alan offline if you have recommendations or would like to stand for president-elect, secretary, or member-at-large
  • Review of our board structure
• Journal update and request (Charlie, Joe, Terry, and Alan – 10 min)
  • Number of submissions:
    21 in 2009 (17 accepted)
    40 in 2010 (28 accepted)
    82 in 2011 (52 accepted; 33 solicited / 19 out of 54 unsolicited mss accepted — 35%)
    21 in 2012 YTD (16 accepted)
  • MORE COOL JoPM STATS!
  • we need help from our membership when it comes to submitting manuscripts and peer review
  • Medline application being processed
    • Gonzalo recommends that we should publicized the fact that our application is being processed because even an application in process will help to attract manuscripts
  • Michael brings up the question: Does the Journal have a strategy or resources to be well represented in the space?
    • we have someone designated to follow up with authors who run PM pieces in other journals. Email Dan H. the link to any article you think JoPM should have had (Members: please contact someone on the exec committee and we’ll get you Dan’s email)
    • The plan is to establish a Medline listing THEN seek writers from the higher profile health research community
    • As our society becomes more weighty our journal will become more weighty; the two entities grow in tandem

• Strategic planning (Sarah – 30 min)
  • Revised strategic plan draft circulated to board members.
  • On this call we hope to endorse the first 2 pages (including Mission, Vision, Guiding Principles)
  • The next 3 pages, which include proposed strategic initiatives, we hope to endorse by email by July 31st and prioritize Y1, Y2, Y3 initiatives.
  • Participatory Medicine is a model of cooperative health care that seeks to achieve active involvement by patients, professionals, caregivers, and others across the continuum of care on all issues related to an individual’s health.
    
    • Mission: Catalyzing collaborative partnerships to optimize health and health care
    • Vision: Participatory Medicine is an integral part of a clinical encounter and all other aspects of health care
    • Guiding Principles:
      1) To guide patients and caregivers to be actively engaged in their health and health care experiences
      2) To guide health professional practices where patient experience and contribution is an integral part of excellence
      3) To encourage mutual collaboration among patients, health professionals, caregivers, and others allowing them to partner in determining care
  • Dave suggests we include promoting the awareness of PM as an aspect of all 3 Guiding Principles
  • David L. suggests that this model include a clear value proposition
    • Danny agreed but we have to be careful about how we present the limited amount of research in this area to market the SPM brand
    • Michael and a short group discussion : we can make a value proposition based in ethics and/or a value proposition based in data (JoPM is, in part, an effort to collect both data and stories to this end)
    • Alan: “Participatory medicine is an ethical approach to care that also holds promise to improve outcomes, reduce medical errors, increase patient satisfaction and improve the cost of care.”
    • Sarah will make some of the other smaller edits suggested
  • Motion to endorse first two pages subject to changes – Approved
  • Next Steps: We’re looking for a blanket approval on the initiatives on the next 3 pages which we hope to evolve into a Charter – please read and approve over the next few weeks

• Seal program (Indu and Alan – 15 min)
  • Review of the seal program and how it evolved
    • Getting the technical side to work had been a stumbling block but now we have a team lead by Fred T.
    • Beta launched in June at HDI
    • Launch scheduled for Oct 7th
    • debugging the site while keeping the API open
  • To keep moving forward there are a few key needs
    • Partnerships
      • Alan yelp
      • Dave mentions that interest in PM will increase in the patient provider space as a result of healthcare reform
      • PR program
        • Indu: How can we help people include this in their talks
        • Maybe get some standard slides together
        • journal slide, society slide, seal slide – this could turn into a fact sheet about the organization
        • Edelman has agreed to help out with our PR pro bono

• Board Changes (Alan and Danny)
  Sarah becomes President, Danny steps into Past President, Alan moves to Board Chair – Congratulations to Sarah and big thanks to Danny! And an exciting day for SPM as non-founders take the lead!
  Next Board Meeting will be: 3rd Thurs of the next quarter (Oct)