Participants, Ileana Balcu, Dave deBronkart, Nick Dawson, Nancy Finn, John Grohol, Josh Seidman, Danny Sands, Sarah Krug

Minutes Approved

Report from HIMSS

The Society had good representation at HIMSS including some of the following activities:

The Patient Engagement Symposium that included Danny Sands, Dave deBronkart, Sarah Krug, MaryAnne Sterling, Danny van Leeuwen, Gail Embt, Jon Wald and Jan Oldenburg.

The Connected Learning Gallery with a presentation from Danny Sands and Sarah Krug

The Connected Patient Forum with Danny Sands, Jon Wald, Regina Holliday, Mary Ann Sterling, Danny van Leeuwen.

The Interoperability Showcase with Dave deBronkart, Keith Boone and Datuit

SPM had a kiosk at HIMSS which generated a lot of traffic

Both Dave deBronkart and Regina Holliday received HIMSS awards as movers and shakers in healthcare

WEDI (Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange)

An alliance between SPM, WEDI and the Sullivan Institute for Healthcare and Innovation was announced at HIMSS. The work of this combined group will focus on providing a forum for consumers to offer guidance to the health care industry on improving the consumer experience when patients and their caregivers interact with the health care system. More detail to follow.

Revised corporate sponsorship structure:

The revised levels for corporate  sponsorship are on the website. We are seeking feedback from members

Membership

We talked about ways to expand our membership similar to the Medicine X offer to all registrants for a free membership. We discussed whether  to expand that offer to attendees of other conferences.  Founder Alan Greene has proposed offering a free membership to everyone who signs up for the Scanadu conference (10,000 people); John Grohol offered membership to everyone who signs up for his website.We discussed how we redefine our member benefits.

Penn State Medical Center

The Society was approached by Penn State Medical Center to support their grant application to develop patient-defined quality and cost transparency measures. If the grant is awarded, the Society’s members will have a significant opportunity to shape the research and participate in the final publication. More details to follow.

Director of development

We will be making an offer to a Director of Development candidate, this week. Her immediate priority will be to develop a fundraising road map with a timeline and goals.

Journal of Participatory Medicine

We agreed to hold a separate meeting, within the next few weeks,  of the Executive Committee with the Journal editors, to discuss the future direction of the Journal.