Danny van Leeuwen, Author at SPM Blog

Medication Management: Experience of Engaged Clinicians and Empowered Patients

by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 26, 2013

The overlap between the clinical aspects of our health journey and behavior of health team members occurs most often in medication management. Effective medication management depends on empowered, informed patients and caregivers prepared for clinician visits, and...

Reading our own EKG

by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 19, 2013

There’s been a great thread on Dr. Wes’ blog and the SPM listserv about patients obtaining and reading their own EKG’s. As you can imagine — lots of pros and cons. A significant difference noted between the right to have the information...

PCORI Board Meeting, San Francisco, February 9, 2013

by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 9, 2013

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Initiative (PCORI) was established in 2010 by the Affordable Care Act with a mission to help people make informed health care decisions, and improves health care delivery and outcomes, by producing and promoting high integrity,...

HIMSS and S4PM collaborative – Advise us!

by Danny van Leeuwen | Feb 7, 2013

As you see in Sarah Krug’s letter above, HIMSS and S4PM entered into a collaboration. I sit (with Ileana Balcu) on HIMSS’ eConnecting with Consumers Committee where we advocated for this partnership. Everyone on the Committee could be a member of S4PM, as...

Research – Route funding through consumer organizations

by Danny van Leeuwen | Jan 16, 2013

This is the third of 3 recommendations a group of Boston-based PCORI Ambassadors made to the PCORI Board in November. The first was Expanding the Scope of Research Questions Funded, the second, Micro-contracts. Researchers typically struggle to include...