CPD WORKSHOP:
e-Patients – Preparing for the Future Health Consumer

DATE: 16 March 2019
TIME: 09:00 – 12:00
LEVEL: Beginners
FACILITATOR: Vanessa Carter (Stanford University Medicine X e-Patient Scholar)
VENUE: Flexible Workspace, The PIVOT, Montecasino, Block E, First Floor, Fourways, Johannesburg
COST: Introductory price of R900
TARGET AUDIENCE Healthcare professionals, NPO’s, advocates, startups, IT professionals, researchers, medical educators and students, pharmaceutical professionals, government, payers, policymakers
Accredited by the South African Medical Association (SAMA)
CPD ACCREDITATION NUMBER: MDB015/212/02/2019

OVERVIEW:
As e-Health evolves in South Africa, understanding how patients use the internet, as well as other digital technologies, will be important to medical professionals wanting to prescribe these solutions in future. E-Patients will be considered as a useful resource within health IT systems as opposed to cyberchondriacs which originally emerged in the 20th-Century when the internet first provided access to the public in the early 1990s.
Cyberchondriacs had access to a plethora of medical information and through that, it caused chaos between patients and providers as it was the first time that patients had access to any medical data. E-patients are the next generation of health consumers. Educated, empowered, evaluating and electronic. They are 21st-Century patients who use the web and other digital devices like wearables, mobiles applications, social media, online platforms and virtual groups to manage their health conditions better. As we move towards a more connected, electronic health ecosystem, patients will need to be considered as an important stakeholder. In this short course, we explain how patients have evolved because of the internet as well as how the culture of medicine may need to adapt to accommodate these new digital health stakeholders in future.

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What you will learn:
How e-Patients evolved with the web
Separating e-Patients from Cyberchondriacs
Understanding how the different e’s matter
Internet use in South Africa
Considering the Digital Divides

Participatory Medicine
Patients as an underutilised resource in Health Systems
Shared Decision Making
The role of e-Patients in a Health System

Resources
Global Thought Leaders to follow
Books, Sites, Events and other resources