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Sally Okun VP Advocacy, Policy & Patient Safety . Partnering with Patients to Increase Engagement & Improve Outcomes. @ SallyOkun @ patientslikeme. …harnessing the power of patient stories. Patients Share , Find, Learn, Take Control. Step 1:
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Sally Okun VP Advocacy, Policy & Patient Safety Partnering with Patients to Increase Engagement & Improve Outcomes @SallyOkun @patientslikeme
Patients Share, Find, Learn, Take Control Step 1: Create/update and share your health profile Step 2: Find support from others like you and compare experiences Step 5: Play an integral part in your own health care Step 3: Learn from aggregated community Treatment and Symptom Reports Step 4: Take profile to your doctor to have an improved treatment conversation
Persona-based design…one size does not fit all • Chroniccondition • Lifechanging/ Life threatening condition • Conditionnotwellunderstood by the science of medicine • Not completely happywith the care they receive today • Engaged in their own care • Need or desire to track their condition over time • Comfortablesharingpersonal health information • Wantto tell their story
Understanding the journey… Experiencing a change Having symptoms Seeking diagnosis Getting diagnosis (that you believe) Optimizing & adjusting Living with it Finding a plan • Any stage might be minutes…or years • People can be in different stages with different diagnoses • First two stages don’t always happen • Planning / sense-making may overlap or be reversed Making sense of it
13,500 Patient Voice: Capturing Real World Experiences 7,500 Patients have told us about more than seven thousand symptoms Patients have added more than thirteen thousand treatments 86,500 Patients have done over eighty-six thousand treatment evaluations
Patient-reported online data collection is an alternative method for studies of efficacy for off-label drugs which are unlikely to be funded commercially • ALS patients are using amitriptyline to dry excess saliva; using a side effect as a primary purpose • Rated more effective for its side effects than its indication! • Winner of the inaugural “Medicine 2.0” prize