2012 Professional Learning Series Webcast

Webcast held March 21, 1-2 pm EDT

Faculty:

Dave deBronkart (e-Patient Dave)
Blogger, Keynote Speaker, and Health Policy Adviser
Co-Chair, Society for Participatory Medicine

Please note: Continuing education credits are not available for archived events.

Learning Objectives

• List three significant advancements in the patient engagement movement in the past 24 months.
• Identify two new legal rights American patients and families will have regarding their medical records.
• Identify three new IT-related risks that patients and families (or their advocates) must be aware of.
• Determine what support patients and families will need, to be engaged with their medical records at home and in hospital.

Dave deBronkart, known online as e-Patient Dave, is a leading spokesman for patient engagement, attending more than 150 conferences and policy meetings internationally in the past two years. He serves as volunteer co-chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

His writing has appeared in Time, U.S. News, Wired, MIT Technology Review, and the HealthLeaders cover story “Patient of the Future.” In 2009 HealthLeaders named him and his doctor to their annual list of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better,” and in 2011 his TEDx talk went viral globally: volunteers have added subtitles in 25 languages. Its tagline is his appeal: “Let Patients Help.”

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