Power to the Patient!
Welcome to Grand Rounds for May 10, 2011!
I have a confession: I’m new at this. My initial exposure to Grand Rounds a while back gave me a warped view, and as I worked on this project, I was a little bit graceless. (Those of you who wrote to me about it know what I mean. I meant well…)
This week’s theme is the TEDx Maastricht conference that happened April 4. But first –
These news highlights were submitted:
There’s a “Grand Rounds” tradition in the medical blogosphere: every week a health related blogger picks a topic and asks other bloggers to write about it, or submit a post they wrote in the past. The host writes a blog post about the topic, and links to everyone else’s posts.
For instance, here’s the current week’s Grand Rounds, on International Health, and last week’s, on What Gives Your Work Meaning?
Below I posted video of my speech at TEDx in the Netherlands. Throughout the day, Dutch medical magazine Medisch Contact interviewed speakers after their talks. Journalist and moderator Henk Maassen clearly knows his stuff – all his questions were relevant and meaningful.
I quite like where this interview went – everything from the nature of this work to its parallels with social movements from the Sixties and beyond. Thanks so much to TEDx and to Medisch Contact for doing this and making the videos freely available!
Specifically, this TEDx event was organized by Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. (Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands; in that country, “UMCs” are equivalent to America’s AMCs (academic medical centers).)
Footnotes:
I’m thrilled that the Institute for Healthcare Improvement has agreed to release the full video of the talk that Dr. Danny Sands and I delivered at the annual IHI Forum in December: “How Patient-Provider Engagement Can Transform Healthcare.”
Click the image to view it on the Videos page.
Thanks very much to the IHI for releasing this video for public viewing, so it can be viewed freely by patients, providers, payors and policy people everywhere. Their commitment to the cause of patient engagement is showing!
This past week I was thrilled to attend TEDMED, the medical offshoot of the famous TED conferences. (TED = Technology, Entertainment, Design.) I was invited to be one of the analysts sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, my kinda people: “The Pioneer Portfolio is powering ideas to transform health. We accelerate the trajectory of innovation … supporting exploration and helping great ideas to gain momentum. Pioneer focuses on the future, seeking breakthroughs with the potential to generate significant health and social impact.” Huzzah!
The Pioneer Portfolio funded the creation of the e-Patient White Paper, which blew my mind almost three years ago and set me on this path. (That paper’s at top right of www.e-patients.net.)
At TEDMED RWJF asked the analysts (and anyone else!) to record brief, informal videos on how to improve healthcare fast. Here’s mine:
A quick note on site updates as a busy Fall season begins – new videos and new speaking appearances: