The Power of Voices: Virtual Patient Panel to Highlight Experiences in Healthcare
We invite you to join us on Tuesday, August 11, as we host be a diverse group of patients to have a frank conversation about their experiences with health care – both past and current – with the goal of helping a wide variety of stakeholders understand the patient experience ...
by Anna Greene |
August 3, 2020
HLTH 2019: Did Patients Get the Spotlight They Deserve?
Why, with 6,000 in attendance, weren’t people clamoring to hear from the people we serve? My assumption is that while it sounds really good for health care industry peeps to say they care about what patients think and do, there’s still a massive swath who, when it really comes down ...
by Heather Burton |
November 7, 2019
SPM2018 Recap: Taking Action to Drive Change
A couple of weeks ago, HealthSparq sponsored and participated in the Society for Participatory Medicine’s 2nd Annual Conference: Democratizing Healthcare (#SPM2018). After all the work I’ve done with What’s the Fix? over the past few years, this conference is very close to my heart. There are amazing individuals and organizations ...
by Anna Greene |
November 7, 2018
Consumers Speak: SDOH, Instability in Health Insurance and Humanizing Providers
Improving people’s health requires looking at more than just their medical history, how they eat and the exercise they get. Where people live, their income levels, education, race, environmental factors, access to health services and employment status are all factors in health and effectiveness of care. In fact, nearly 90 ...
by Heather Burton |
September 20, 2018