Links to the communities requiring joining the community to view all discussions
- Advocacy and Policy: The Community met on 12/21/17 to recommend direction and goals to the Board. Discussion about patient ownership of their own medical records continues.
- Marketing Team  In December the committee held the first live strategic planning meeting. The team identified areas for growth and improvement, including enhancing membership growth, improving overall communications within the member community and with the public, better leveraging of social media, improving public relations, growing sponsorship, and developing metrics for analysis and continuous improvement.  Interested in joining? Reach out to Judy Danielson via Connect today!
- Education and Participatory Medicine: For discussion and work on educational issues and participatory medicine curriculum projects.
- The Lounge: the surprising capabilities of Alexa were revealed.
- Open Forum the most active discussions:
- The need for health literacy to be taught in schools. This is one of the pillars of participatory medicine.
- Researching inflammation in the medical journals. Members shared free online medical literature resources.
- Several members shared advice and online tools for caregivers – an often neglected and poorly supported part of the healthcare ecosystem.
- Members continued to help each other with finding advocates, disease-specific research, and answering questions.
- In Membership, our Society’s recent growth was charted and strategies for continuing growth discussed.
