{"id":17362,"date":"2015-05-11T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=17362"},"modified":"2015-05-16T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T19:39:10","slug":"guest-post-by-annette-mckinnon-power-equality-why-is-my-silo-two-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2015\/05\/guest-post-by-annette-mckinnon-power-equality-why-is-my-silo-two-miles-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Guest post by Annette McKinnon: Power Equality: Why Is My Silo Two Miles Away?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog welcomes guest posts from SPM members on relevant topics. This is a blog post by Annette McKinnon, an e-patient in Canada. Annette is an enthusiastic advocate for patient inclusion in research and healthcare decision making. She has had rheumatoid arthritis\"AnnetteMcKinnon\"for the past 30 years, and has a background in market research. She attended the Stanford Medicine X Conference in 2014 as an ePatient Scholar, and in 2013 and 2014 was moderator of the Reaching Out With Arthritis Research (#eROAR) tweetchat for the Arthritis Patient Advisory Board of ARC\u00a0(Arthritis Research Canada).<\/em><\/p>\n

She sits on the Board of Directors for the Sjogren\u2019s Society of Canada, and is a volunteer Health Mentor for the Centre For Interprofessional Education in Ontario, a member of Patient Partners in Arthritis and the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance. She tweets as @anetto<\/a> and blogs about health related issues at \u201cYour Gold Watch \u2013 Rheutired<\/a>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I watched a youtube video of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR) Policy Rounds – Improving Care of Multiple Chronic Conditions<\/a>\u00a0The webinar is from March 26, 2014. I found out that in Ontario chronic disease accounted for at least 65% of direct health care costs in 2010\/11 and it would not surprise me if that number is typical across Canada. In the US that percentage might not be the same since the health care system is different.
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The\u00a0Steering Committee that set direction for this discussion was composed of government and researchers who chose stakeholders to participate in the discussion about issues and challenges involved in dealing with patients with multiple chronic conditions. They\u00a0were picked because they could bring unique views and experiences to bear on the challenge and they could champion actions to address the problem creatively within their constituencies. (Michael Wilson, PhD)<\/p>\n

The part that really caught my attention was the breakdown of participants involved in the stakeholder dialogue<\/p>\n