Participants:  Nick Dawson, Peter Elias, Nancy Finn, John Grohol, Sarah Krug, Julia Pagan, Josh Seidman, Peggy Zuckerman

Minutes Approved

Personal SPM stories, wins and highlights from the past week
Nick Dawson presented a talk at the VA Oral Health Summit. He has donated the honorarium to SPM.  He spoke about patients being involved in everything from the design to the delivery of health care.

Nancy Finn spoke at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland at the Beijing+20 Regional Review on the Status of Women.  Her presentation was entitled: Expediting Advances in Women’s Health through Internet and mHealth.

Peggy Zuckerman has been working with Genentech in an initiative which includes patients in shaping clinical trials, specifically developing the questions that are relevant to patients during these trials.
Development

Julia will post a full development report in basecamp.  She has been in discussions with HIMSS about SPM participating in a pre-conference discussion on patient engagement across care settings. The HIMSS conference is in Chicago in April.

The Best Practice Exchange

The Best Practice Exchange is an initiative to  leverage the tools and stories that our members are involved in that result in best practices We discussed potential funding sources for a series of webinars around best practices.  We decided we would launch the webinar with members of our Executive Committee and will use Google Hangouts for our platform.  All members are invited to participate as presenters.  This is a great webinar opportunity for some of our corporate members. We plan to archive the presentations and have them available as a resource.

Review of our Focused Strategy, SPM 2.0

Declaring what it is that SPM stands for and the meaning of participatory medicine.

Determining how we convey the best practices of participatory medicine  to our members.

Deciding how we recognize  the people and organizations who are accomplishing best practices in participatory medicine?

Should we initiate an awards program?