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May 31st Exec Committee Minutes

By  | June 1, 2012

11:30 am EST, May 31, 2012.

Attendees: Danny Sands, Sarah Krug, Sue Woods, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, John Grohol, Deb Linton, Michael Millenson

  • Beta for Gold Seal program to be shown Wednesday, June 6, at Health Data Institute/Datapalooza in DC. Will have a functioning web page, with a nomination and taking the pledge. Trying to get some patient stories written up. People can sign up to take the pledge after that meeting. Ready to be fully functional by Health 2.0 in the fall. (Alan)
  • Members requested that a link to newly posted meeting minutes be shared on the listserv (Deb)
  • On MotherKnows, company for creating medical records for parents on the web.   Wanted to give $30 to cover customer membership and would give another $30 to cover the provider if they want to join SPM.  If no second person, will donate to the society. Intend to implement in next few weeks. (Alan)
  • Discussion of how to set up a speaker’s bureau where we know that the speaker we’re referring to meetings are competent and capable
    • We will need to set basic expectations such as they won’t ‘push’ their product, will speak to key SPM issues, have a clinicians and patients represented etc.
    • Discussion of proper relationship with the SpeakerLink of member Regina Holliday. How to institutionalize a capacity to provide speakers (little seals next to SPM approved speakers?) . Maybe she could help lead a team in the future
    • To triage the most immediate requests
      • application process via wufoo
      • quick list of recommended names committee
    • Sue and Michael will talk to Regina on indicating who is a Society member or a category of participatory medicine or other actions. (Sue and Michale)
  • Danny and Deb to develop 4 communications to the larger membership (Danny and Deb)
    • roll-out strategy TBD but we don’t want to bombard our membership with too many mailings nor do we want any one announcement to get lost or slowed down by others.
  1. Member at Large and nominations for other board positions opening up (text to be developed by Danny)
  2. Year in review (text to be developed by Deb)
  3. Announcing the Gold Seal program at HDI (text to be developed by Alan and Sarah)
  4. Goals Committee progress (text to be developed by Alan and Sarah)
  • Long discussion regarding the wording of the (close to complete) Strategic Plan wording (Sarah, Michale, Sue, Danny)

 

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