Deans' stroke musings: What happens when patients have the power?

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

What happens when patients have the power?

There are 10 million yearly stroke survivors. The power we could have if we DEMAND that our doctors actually DO SOMETHING about effective stroke rehab rather than just sitting on their asses. They should know exactly how to get us back to 100% recovery, NO excuses. If all 10 million would not pay their doctors unless they fully recovered that might make change happen.

What happens when patients have the power?

Hear Dr. Eric Topol (and others) speak at ENGAGE on the new landscape of patient engagement

Eric Topol, M.D.

Director; Prof. Genomics

Scripps Institute

For decades, physicians have told patients what to do and wielded all the power in the relationship. In the past five years, that equation has been turned on its head. With the advent of digital health technologies and the focus on genomics and personalized medicine, patients have squarely placed themselves at the center of the conversation.

Dr. Eric Topol, who has been championing this disruptive change in medicine for years, will address this great inversion and the future of patient engagement at MedCity ENGAGE, being held October 18-19 in San Diego.

Topol, Director, and Professor of Genomics at Scripps Institute, is the indefatigable champion of empowering patients through digital health and has published two bestseller books on the future of medicine.

We invite you to hear him speak on Medicine's Great Inversion: how technology and patient-centered care will change the future of patient engagement and healthcare.

Register by Oct. 6 and save $200.

Can improved care be delivered at lower costs?

Joseph Smith, M.D.

President and CEO

Reflexion Health

Entrepreneurs, payers and providers are recognizing that healthcare has to move out into the “real world” to be successful. Dr. Joe Smith, President and CEO, Reflexion Health will explain how home visits and video visits are improving access to care and lowering costs in the panel discussion: Straight to the Source: How Care is Moving Beyond the Doctor’s Office.

Smith is joined on the panel by , Founder & CEO, RetraceHealth and , Senior VP and CEO, Sharp Coronado Hospital. You’ll hear how a data company is working with firefighters to reduce the burden on the ER and how the FDA approved physical therapy via motion trackers

MedCity ENGAGE is the best place to discover the future of patient engagment and to meet and connect with ileading healthcare innovators.