e-Patient Dave's talk at NQF Annual Meeting Feb 13, 2014
1. Let Patients Help
Heal Healthcare
JAMIA, 1997
“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart
Twitter: @ePatientDave
facebook.com / ePatientDave
LinkedIn.com / in / ePatientDave
dave@epatientdave.com
Skype: ePatientDave
2. “I want to note especially
the importance of the resource
that is most often underutilized in our information systems –
our patients”
Charles Safran MD, Beth Israel
Deaconess
quoting his colleague,Warner Slack MD
Testimony to the House Ways & Means
subcommittee on health, 2004
4. Yes, the IOM itself
says e-patients are an
essential part of
tomorrow’s healthcare.
Patient-Clinician Partnerships
Engaged, empowered patients—
A learning health care system is
anchored on patient needs and
perspectives
and promotes the inclusion of
patients, families, and other caregivers
as vital members of the continuously
learning care team.
5. How I came to be here
• High tech marketing
• Data geek; tech trends; automation
• 2007: Cancer discovery & recovery
• 2008: E-Patient blogger
• 2009: Participatory
Medicine, Public Speaker
• 2010: full time
• 2011: international
6. Doc Tom said,
e-Patients.net founder
“e-Patients are Tom Ferguson MD
quipped
E
Engaged
Empowered
Enabled”
1944-2006
14. ACOR members told me:
• This is an uncommon disease –
get to a hospital that does a lot of cases
• There’s no cure, but HDIL-2 sometimes works.
– When it does, about half the time it’s permanent
– The side effects are severe.
• Don’t let them give you anything else first
• Here are four doctors in your area who do it
– And one of them was at my hospital
15. Surgery & Interleukin worked.
Target Lesion 1 – Left Upper Lobe
Baseline: 39x43 mm
50 weeks: 20x12 mm
18. How can it be
that the most useful
and relevant and
up-to-the-minute information
can exist outside of
traditional channels?
19. Because of the Web,
Patients Can Connect to Information
and Each Other (and other Providers)
20. Dr. Lindberg:
400 years
“If I read two journal articles every night,
at the end of a year I’d be 400 years behind.”
It’s not humanly possible to keep up.
21. The lethal lag time:
2-5 years
The time it takes after successful research is completed
before publication is completed and the article’s been read.
During this time,
people who might have benefitted can die.
Patients have all the time in the world
to look for such things.
22. Death by Googling:
Not.
(Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, Europe: 0 deaths found in a three year search)
Compare with
“To Err is Human”
(98,000 deaths/yr
Nov 1999)
24. “These conclusions
are no more anti-doctor
or anti-medicine
than Copernicus and Galileo
were anti-astronomer.”
Patients can simply contribute
more today than in the past.
25. Web 2.0: “When the web began to
harness the intelligence of its users.” –
Tim O’Reilly
36. @Xeni
Live tweeting, 12-18-2011
“Now I know why docs
don’t give you scan data.
I see the Virgin Mary,
Jimmy Hoffa, several forks,
and Saddam’s yellowcake
hiding in my guts.”
“And this CT scan makes my butt look big.”
37. @Xeni
Next day: 12-19-2011
“So I figure out how to open
my bone scan data. I look.”
“What the...”
“What’s that ****-shaped
ghost-shadow thing—
it looks like I have a penis!”
“I call a hacker pal. ‘That, Xeni, is a ****.’”
“I look at metadata more carefully. THEY GAVE ME
THE WRONG DATA. SOME OTHER DUDE’S SCANS.”
38. Pre-op: “At least you won’t be lopsided.”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re getting a bilateral mastectomy.”
“No I’m not!”
“That’s what came to us on this paper.”
39. Who has the most at stake
with the accuracy,
completeness and
availability
of the medical record?
42. Physician adoption of new
practices years after discovery
The “17 years” thing
From A. Balas, Institute of Medicine, in Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2000
Flu vaccine, year 32:
55% doing it,
45% still not
Beta blockers, year 18:
62% doing it,
38% still not
Cholesterol, year 16:
65% doing it,
35% still not
Diabetic foot care, year 7:
20% doing it,
80% still not
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