We asked participants what their expectations were from this year's annual meeting of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association. Thanks to everyone who participated in the videos below...
#CFHA13: What are your expectations?
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Questions from #CFHA13
Here are a couple of questions asked of participants during the 2013 Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Annual Meeting...
- What has been the most important accomplishment of the integrated care movement to date?
- What is the biggest hurdle preventing integrated care from entering the mainstream of healthcare services?
#CFHA13: Pecha Kucha
Last night in Denver, was one of the best opening sessions that that Collaborative Family Healthcare Association annual meetings has even seen (in my humble opinion lol). The Pecha Kucha presentation style requires 20 slides at 20 seconds each in which the slides advance automatically.
What follows below are the presentations focused on the presenter. I apologize for not having the accompanying slides as a part of this blog post. I'll try to work with the meeting organizers to also get the corresponding slides with the presentations. But, what I thought was the best part of these talks are the people themselves.
Each one of these presenters never prepared a talk like this before, and they worked very hard not only before this meeting, but also hours before show time during the rehearsal sessions in which some of these talks were sharpened to what you see below. See more of my videos at MikeSevilla.TV Enjoy...
Direct Primary Care National Summit
I have talked about Direct Primary Care on this blog and on the podcast in the past. For those who are not familiar, Direct Primary Care are services offered directly to the patient, often without insurance administration. The patient pays fixed monthly fees and also sometimes visit fees as well. The challenge in describing this concept is that there is no official definition of Direct Primary Care. Hopefully, this meeting will take steps toward that.
As far as I know, there has never been a national meeting about Direct Primary Care - that is until now. This meeting is organized by our friends at the Family Medicine Education Consortium and starts today in St Louis.
The full schedule is here and you can follow on twitter using the hashtag #DPCSummit. I'll only be able to catch part of the summit, but I hope to learn more about Direct Primary Care and its impact on American Healthcare.
Collaborative Family Healthcare Assoc Mtg
The annual meeting of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association begins today in Denver. I've only learned of this group a few months ago. According to their website, here is how they describe the organization:
CFHA promotes a comprehensive and cost-effective model of healthcare delivery that integrates mind and body, individual and family, patients, providers, and communities.
I have the honor of being The Moderator for the opening session tonight. First for this meeting, they will be having presentations in the style called "Pecha Kucha" in which an big idea is presented only with 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide. You can read more here, but here are the titles of the presentations
- Sowing and Harvesting the Literature of Collaborative Family Healthcare
- Righting Wrongs and Reforming Rights
- Health in Hope: Finding the Soul of Primary Care
- When We Look Away: Primary Care and Serious Mental Illness
- Clinician as Patient: The Gift of Illness
- Cold Spotting: Linking Primary Care and Public Health to Create Communities of Solution
The meeting is also taking its first steps in social media. You can follow the meeting via the #CFHA13 hashtag on twitter. There has been a social media team put together to try to interview attendees following sessions, and there is even a tweet up scheduled tonight following the opening session. Finally, in a fun way, I recorded the videos below to share my journey to the meeting. Maybe I'll be done more of this during the meeting as well...
AAFP Global Health Workshop
The Family Medicine Global Health Workshop is going on over the next couple of days in Baltimore. This meeting is organized by our friends at the American Academy of Family Physicians.
According to their website, you'll learn the following at the meeting:
- How to get started in global health
- Strengthen your capacity to contribute to global health programs
- Prepare to serve as family medicine consultants and organize and conduct global health consultation
- Broaden your clinical knowledge about diseases rarely encountered in your home country
- Evaluate the practical management of chronic diseases in resource-contrainted settings
- Strengthen preparation of students, residents, and physicians for global health field work
- Promote family medicine faculty development
You can also follow the meeting using the #AAFPGlobal hashtag on twitter. I imagine that AAFP will also group tweets for your review later as well. What follows below are some initial tweets from day one...
Family Medicine Words To Live By
These are selected tweets from the 2013 Congress of Delegates of the American Academy of Family Physicians. See other accumulated tweets from the meeting on the AAFP Storify link.
Social Media at 2013 #AAFPCOD
Monday was the first full day at the Congress of Delegates of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in San Diego. For those unfamiliar, this is the annual meeting of the organization where health policy is debated and organizational statements are made.
One of the cool things about a blog is that you can look back at previous years to see what I have written in the past. Just two years ago, I wrote a blog post called "AAFP Embraces Social Media." It was in May 2011 at the NCSC meeting where AAFP leadership really jumped on the social media bandwagon. It was at 2011 #AAFPCOD when, for the first time ever, portions of the Congress would have a live video stream for all to see.
Just a year ago, I wrote an essay called "Social Media and #AAFPCOD." In this essay, I wrote this: "Through the 3 days of the Congress of Delegates meeting in Philadelphia, those on twitter were able to get 3.7 million impressions on the internet. Now, I know that other meetings do a lot better. But, given that social media was not even on the AAFP radar just 2 years ago, this is a huge accomplishment."
Fast forward to this year, 2013, and as of Monday afternoon, there were already 2.1 million impressions from more #AAFPCOD tweeters than I have seen in past years. Again, this year, selected sessions of the meeting will have live internet video streaming. Unlike previous years, the AAFP organization is utilizing multiple social media platforms like twitter, storify, instagram, and ustream. Collected tweets from Monday's sessions are in the storify at the bottom of this post.
I'm very excited that the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Family Medicine Revolution (#FMRevolution) are continuing to increase their use of digital communication and social media to spread the message of Family Medicine Healthcare Policy Advocacy. The challenge will always be to continue this high social media use following the meeting, but each year, my optimism continues to grow. As I have said on multiple occasions in the past, if We, as Family Physicians, cannot be advocates for ourselves, who will?
2013 #AAFPCOD Begins Today
Out in San Diego tonight, the 2013 Congress of Delegates begins for the American Academy of Family Physicians. Unfortunately, I will not be in attendance because of scheduling challenges with work.
The good thing is that it will seem like I'm there because of social media, specifically twitter, and the hashtag #AAFPCOD. Shout out to all my friends who are there, and I hope that they will keep us updated.
Did want to give out a shout out to our pal Dr. Glen Stream who mentioned me in the video above right before he became AAFP President. It was also with Dr. Stream that the twitter handle @aafpprez was started. Our pal Dr. Reid Blackwelder who will be taking over the @aafpprez twitter feed this week.
If you're like me, and cannot attend the Congress of Delegates in person, don't worry, AAFP is live video streaming parts of the proceedings this year again at this link. Thanks to AAFP for using digital communication like video streaming and social media to get the message out about Family Medicine and #FMRevolution!
The Presidents' Gatekeepers
I don't know what it is, but even as a young kid, I've been fascinated with politics (but not being a politician). I've been watching a new TV show from the Discovery show called "The Presidents' Gatekeepers" talking about the job of White House Chief of Staff.
Up to this point, there have been two episodes. Not only has it's been a cool review of history, but a great first person account by those who were advising the President. We have a lot to learn from history. I have always told myself that before looking ahead, you have to look back to the past. There are still lessons that we can learn...