{"id":22860,"date":"2024-01-17T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=22860"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:35:37","slug":"2024-spm-update-from-board-chair-mary-hennings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2024\/01\/2024-spm-update-from-board-chair-mary-hennings.html","title":{"rendered":"2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our goal for the Society for Participatory Medicine in 2023 was to expand awareness of participatory medicine ([PM)] and SPM post-Covid and build new insights into the value of PM.<\/p>\n
We focused on the topics of health equity and the impact of technology, topics which are intertwined with PM and changing the culture of healthcare relationships. SPM delivered three CLEs, one in Portland OR with Oregon Health and Science University and two in Boston MA, one in collaboration with the Patient Experience Symposium and the other in partnership with Northeastern University. We also held a shorter session we put on at the request of a sponsor.<\/p>\n
With each event, our audiences grew, and we strengthened our ability to stage them.<\/p>\n
In interactive CLE sessions, we collected perceptions of participants about the unique role PM can play in advancing health equity and the effective use of technology. We are using these insights to develop blog posts and other educational materials, to advance the understanding of participatory medicine.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s ahead for 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n Coming out of our 2023 CLEs, we believe it is important to update the definition of PM, based in part on our exploration of issues of health equity and technology. It\u2019s been almost 15 years since PM was defined and in the passing years, the health care system has changed. Of late, we hear that PM is being confused with ideas like patient-centeredness and improved patient experience. These concepts are important but don\u2019t speak to the deep, equal, partnership we feel should exist between clinician and patient and how best to facilitate and sustain it. It\u2019s time to consider what has changed and how SPM should best advance the principles of PM. Toward that end, in the first part of the year, we\u2019ll be connecting with key stakeholders to get their perspectives on PM, which will help inform how we describe PM clearly and our mission. We will be updating communications and engaging in research as well, to demonstrate PM\u2019s value to patients and clinicians, as well as to health systems.<\/p>\n This is an exciting period of exploration and opportunity for SPM, which will create a strong foundation for us to move forward rapidly to advance PM in a time where I believe it has never been more needed.<\/p>\n We look forward to providing more insights as we move forward with this work, and we hope we can Involve interested members, as well. If contributing to this work interests you, don\u2019t hesitate to reach out.<\/p>\n Mary Hennings<\/em> is board chair for SPM.\u00a0 Her professional background is as a senior healthcare executive with 35+ years of broad health care experience. She has expertise in formulating product strategy and new products, and developing and implementing organizational innovations that are aimed at supporting better care, coverage, and customer experiences. She has held leadership roles in both integrated health care delivery and health insurance settings.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our goal for the Society for Participatory Medicine in 2023 was to expand awareness of participatory medicine ([PM)] and SPM post-Covid and build new insights into the value of PM. We developed two curriculum modules, one on participatory medicine and the other on health equity for Health Union, who became a gold member in 2023. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":22639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[8369],"class_list":["post-22860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n