“Patients as Partners in their Healthcare” Conference and Workshop – November 2 & 3, 2011
Patient Destiny will host an exciting and much anticipated two-day conference this fall in Toronto focused on the theme “Patients as Partners in their Healthcare”. Following on the heels of the groundbreaking symposia “One Patient, One Record”, this conference will build on their success by further advancing the dialogue between patients and healthcare personnel to create an action plan.
Feedback from all participants at the symposia – patients and healthcare personnel alike – overwhelmingly endorsed the need and the value of patients having access to their own health information. This is part of a powerful groundswell across the healthcare continuum where various sectors, organizations and groups are all working to streamline the sharing of electronic health records (EHRs). It’s time to harness that energy and bring these projects and processes together so we can all experience the benefits.
Patient Destiny has adopted a dynamic new logo to underscore its commitment to the need to recognize “patients as partners in their healthcare”. It’s time for patients to be identified and accepted throughout the health system for their primary role in managing their healthcare – as partner, collaborator, and owner of information. And this requires that patients have access to their own health records.
Patient Destiny believes in developing an electronic health record for all consumers: an EHR that can be accessed by the continuum of healthcare providers as well as by patients themselves. This, in turn, will usher in improved health outcomes.
While there appears to be growing acceptance of the rights of patients to access their own health information, there are few resources they can turn to for guidance in determining what information is relevant and, more importantly, how to ask for it – and get it!
Change happens when it’s forced to happen. Join us in November 2011 and be part of the force for change to bring healthcare in line with other industries that have successfully adopted information technology by incorporating consumer input. Patient Destiny will play the lead role in promoting a healthcare industry-wide strategy of patient/provider awareness and education. Effective and coordinated consumerism is a win-win proposition for healthcare stakeholders.
Stay tuned!! Planning for the conference is well underway and we’ll keep you updated in the weeks to come as presenters are confirmed and sessions are firmed up.
Mark your calendar now for Wednesday, November 2 and Thursday, November 3, 2011.
This is one event you can’t afford to miss!!
This is a book that is targeted at all patients. Throughout the book, I present how changing technology has affected our society in a number of industries (education, banking and sports/entertainment) culminating in a discussion on healthcare. I discuss my role in each of these industries as a change agent and illustrate how the industries have matured as a result of rising consumerism and greater expectations relating to information access and delivery. The overall objective is, through the art of storytelling, to illustrate how each of these industries has dealt with change and changing technology and the similarities (and differences) when compared to healthcare. Hopefully, these illustrations will provide insight into moving the healthcare industry forward as well as an incentive to all consumers, the healthy and the patients, to become more involved in their own care and health management and to expect more from health providers.
Hello: I am interested in attending “Patients as Partners in their Healthcare”. I would like to submit an abstract as a presenter. Can you tell me what your target population’s greatest need is in support of your focus? What subjects do you suspect will be most popular or most needed?
I am a severly disabled individual with a past history as a Health Record Administrator (now an HIM). I believe my life-experiences have provided me a wealth of material that would be of interest to attendants.
Has a fee schedule been established?
Is the conference site totally wheelchair accessible?
Thank you for your time and energy in responding to my e-mail.
Melanie Elliott
carpe.diem@ns.sympatico.ca
Melanie,
Thank you for your interest in our November 2011 Patient Destiny Conference and Workshop, “Patients as Partners in their Healthcare”. As mentioned, we are planning to have both patients and healthcare personnel attend the event so that we might gain both perspectives. Hopefully, we will be able to set out an action plan to how we can push the eHealth agenda forward so that patients are able to gain immediate and timely access to their own health information.
Currently, we are finalizing conference logistics. We are not a traditional conference where individuals are submitting abstracts for presentation. We will be posting regularly on our website and sending out updates over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for details.
Sandra