2014 Schedule

In this session for both researchers and patients,  leaders from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will share how their Engagement Rubric helps them connect with the patient community.... Read more

Allowing ePatients to share tacit knowledge with each other about how they cope with their illnesses (see Susannah Fox's "Baker's Spatula" post) and what treatments work best for various conditions is... Read more

Performance Management the Stanford Hospital & Clinics Way—Active Daily Management and the Case of Improving Patient Experience through CICARE.Amir Dan Rubin serves as President and CEO of Stanford... Read more

The Internet has fundamentally changed the way healthcare is provided. A change that is clearly apparent to patients and physicians. But a change that leaves many people in the Pharmaceutical Industry... Read more

The business of healthcare, especially in the current era of accountable care, is all about finding the right balance between giving patients the best possible quality outcomes and doing it in a cost... Read more

We tend to think we are rational when it comes to making decisions, but our emotions rule! Innovation consultancy Veryday has worked jointly with organizations both big and small, including several... Read more

Ever since he covered the demise of a safety net hospital in Los Angeles County, ProPublica reporter Charles Ornstein has been a vocal proponent of transparency about hospital quality. He has subsequently... Read more

The proposed workshop focuses on applying Design research methodologies to probe and emphasize the meaningfulness of health and wellbeing monitoring and sensing systems distributed in the homes of elderly... Read more

Over the past 10 years, more than 10,000 people have participated in Stanford on-line self-management programs (Chronic disease self-management, Arthritis Self-Management, Diabetes Self-Management, Building Better... Read more

Wendy Sue Swanson, MD is the author of the Seattle Mama Doc blog and Bryan Vartabedian, MD is the author of the 33charts blog and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine.... Read more

The world of the well and the world of the ill are often separated by an abyss of understanding about what it means to live with chronic and/or terminal disease. This gap became especially evident earlier... Read more

In this workshop, we’ll summarize and discuss technology-based techniques for healthy behavior change that research has shown to actually work and the challenges and promise of mastering the process... Read more

Roni Zeiger is the CEO of Smart Patients. He will conduct a 90-minute Master Class on patient-driven health care. The final curriculum will be shaped by the learners themselves through their course applications,... Read more

Spencer Coveys envisions a Quantified Self workshop to be primarily focused around three topics: 1. Using quantified self type devices to track your individual health markers. The types of outcomes that... Read more

We live in an increasingly video-centric age, one in which a single video can get shared millions of times and make major impact, moving heartstrings and changing policy. Well-produced videos can only... Read more

In this thought provoking Master Class you will get the backstory on synergistically combining design thinking, social media, broadcast media, live events and the voice of the patient to massively impact... Read more