Members Present: Mary Hennings, Eric Bersh, Brenda Merriweather, Liz Boehm, Jay Spitulnik, Danny Sands, Daniel H-R
Welcome: Mary H
Minutes from last meeting: Vote
- Dan motions/Jay 2nds. Unanimous
Farewell Vera: Citation
- Jay motions/Danny 2nds. Unanimous
Review of reports
- Review of monies on hand
- Individual Memberships lower than last year
PM Definition Re-draft
- Liz – review of 4 definitions. Number 4 (revised) is current candidate:
- “Participatory Medicine ensures that patients are the drivers of their health and healthcare professionals encourage and value patients and their caregivers as full partners” (get back to Mary in next week)
- Board asked to review and submit changes to Mary
Foundations next steps
- Pitch deck has been refreshed
- Next: review, feedback, revise, get support commitments
- Need marketing, funding plans (Judy Danielson willing to help with marketing)
- Budget needed: What will it cost to create index?
- Discussion with Planetree (benchmarking experts). They would like to create Patient-centered care index with SPM. Mary, Danny will recontact with them after July 4
- Liz advises caution about relationship
- Danny – “interesting opportunity.” May need to do our survey as a collaboration
- Dan – are we a subset of Planetree? Yes
- Mary – they have patient culture experience. Have relationships with large health care systems. Both Planetree and Beryl need something like our survey
Foundations next steps
- Are there events we should be attending/getting involved in? Who will volunteer to review?
- NE HIMSS (Oct) event re: tech. Get Danny on stage. Jay will investigate
- PEX event; any others. Brenda will investigate
- BMC Health Equity another possibility
Review of other activities
- Blog topics pulled from earlier conference. Eric will investigate. Liz will write blog if appropriate topic found
- How do we involve Dr. Fish? Possible candidate for Board or a blog. Danny will reach out to him
- Jay – CLE’s: meeting scheduled for 7/31. Looking to Board to suggest topic themes
- Danny – Brad Power connection re: cancer event
- Liz – talk to Dr. Shah re: Public Health issues
Journal update
- Matt Hudson and Sue Woods have resigned as Editors
- Mary and Danny working on it. Had JMIR meeting. JMIR has redirection process in works. Looking for people who can help find Editors and or Contributors
- Dan HR talked about his review of 300+ people who are doing PM research
Board recruiting
- Eric to look at Blogger group for candidates
Other business; announcements
- None proposed
Adjourned at 7:24 p.m. EDT. Next meeting: July 23, 2024, 6:00 – 7:30 pm ET
Respectfully submitted,
Eric N Bersh, SPM Board Secretary
