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Friday, November 13, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)
Why patients should know librarians and why librarians should know social media.
A talk with e-Patient Dave deBronkart
A new world of participatory medicine has been growing for years,
largely unnoticed. In this new world, healthcare is not a one-way
street: empowered patients are engaged in their care, actively
collaborating with their physicians, sharing responsibility for their
care. The providers (doctors, nurses, etc) are still the providers, but
the patients share in both the knowledge and the responsibility for how
it all turns out.
And, certainly, the decision making.
Dave is actively engaged in opening health care information directly to patients on an unprecedented level, thus creating a new dynamic in how information is delivered, accessed and used by the patient. In this talk, an empowered patient will engage librarians in strategies of using their skills and social media to help revolutionize and restructure health care delivery in this country.
The Simmons chapter of the Progressive Librarians Guild is a student organization committed to inscribing the struggle for social justice at the center of the library profession. We believe that cataloging, indexing, acquisitions policy and collection development, reference services, library automation, library management, and virtually every other library issue embody political value choices. We aim to make these choices explicit, and to carry out our professional responsibilities in a way that helps to realize a freer, more democratic world.
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