Introduction to PAMEAS
The Patient Medical Association ("PAMEAS") is a not-for-profit patient advocacy organization that exists to make healthcare delivery more cost efficient and clinically effective.
We accomplish this mission using a network of live and online productions to:
- Provide current news and information related to healthcare delivery,
- Produce and support research, education, and training programs for healthcare providers, patients, policy makers, and other healthcare professionals, and
- Encourage advances that improve the health and well-being of the population and the modernization of our healthcare delivery system.
Our healthcare system was built around policies and programs put in place decades ago. However, during the last few years the economic, demographic, and technologic environment has changed dramatically. Unlike most other industries, healthcare policies and programs continue to reflect issues of the past, rather than the realities of the present and future. It is the goal of PAMEAS to help improve those aspects of the healthcare delivery system that impact patient experiences, including:
- Simplify paperwork for patients and doctors
- Educate patients, physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals in new, more efficient medical technologies and advances in healthcare delivery
- Save lives, reduce medical errors, and lower costs through the use of effective electronic medical records and other information technology
- Support primary care, prevention, and wellness programs
- Make health insurance coverage more affordable for everyone
- Don't be denied insurance based on a pre‐existing condition, or go without coverage if your employer drops your insurance, you change jobs, or are out of work
- Encourage practices that support a system driven by patients’ needs, educating the patient and their doctor to make informed healthcare decisions that meet the patient's specific needs
PAMEAS' activities in the service of patients is accomplished through collaborations with and consultations for:
- Physicians
- Nurses, Technicians, and other Physician Extenders
- Other Patient Advocacy Organizations (e.g., AARP,
Patient Advocate Foundation, etc.)
- Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Organizations
- Medical Industry (e.g., medical device
manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, etc.)
- Medical Societies and Associations
- Legislative and Regulatory Agencies (e.g., CMS,
DHHS, other government organizations, etc.)
- Medical Industry payers and Insurance Providers
- Philanthropic Organizations
- Businesses that produce products and services that impact the health and well-being of their customers
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Past Projects
PAMEAS ands its founder have an established record of producing high
quality medical educational programs for healthcare professionals,
including these recent activities:
- Hands-on preceptorship programs:
- Ciné-Med's Endovascular Skills and Interventional
Strategies for Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Interventional Techniques and Skills Lab
- Lead Placement for
Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy
- Innovations in Clinical Practice:
Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Conferences for specialists in training
(fellows and residents):
- Renaissance Summit for Endovascular
Training of Cardiothoracic Surgeons
- Cardiovascular Techniques Summit - Global Interventional Course for Fellows
- The SCAI Interventional Cardiology Fall Fellows Course
- The Cosmetic Boot Camp
- Specialty conferences, seminars, and dinner
programs:
- Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease:
Evaluating Your Treatment Options
- The Endovascular Institute's Endovascular Summit
- The SCAI Cardiac CT Angiography Course - Learning by the
Cases
- Transradial Vascular Access Education
and Training programs
- The SCAI CREST Pharmacologic Therapies Adjunctive to
PCI Dinner Program
For a complete list of program experience, please visit this page. Programs currently under development can be found here. |
PAMEAS Initiatives
PAMEAS has launched several initiatives in service to its mission of patient advocacy. You can following links to these initiatives from here. |
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The PAMEAS Digest
PAMEAS maintains the PAMEAS Digest website as a service to its readers. The home page is designed to provide links to relevant, up-to-date
healthcare news published on the internet that can improve the patient experience for both
patients and providers in an uncluttered and easy to browse format. Content is added continually and rotated weekly, with the newest stories appearing at the top of each column.
Stories posted on the home page are divided into the following categories:
- Reform
- Politically related healthcare reform topics
- Insurance reform
- Issues related to decreasing healthcare delivery costs
- Issues related to increasing clinical effectiveness in healthcare delivery
- Milestones in the evolution of our healthcare delivery system
- Issues related to increasing patient safety, reducing medical errors or hospital-acquired infections, or highlighting problems in our system that should be improved
- Issues related to industry's involvement in our healthcare delivery system
- Technology
- Stories related to new technologies in healthcare
- Information technology stories
- Medical device stories
- Stories about the people and organizations that develop medical technology
- Stories related to industry business and development
- Health & Wellness
- Medical and surgical stories, including stories related to specialty fields of medicine
- Basic science related stories
- References for clinical information
- Stories related to medical meetings and conferences
- Any story of consumer interest not classified above related to health & wellness topics, healthcare, medicine, alternative medicine, global medical practices, history of medicine, or consumer related topics.
- Patient Education
- Links to information related to the many clinical procedures and therapies available.
- Information to help you become better prepared for and more comfortable with tests and treatments.
- Patient safety information about drugs, radiology procedures, surgeries
Beyond the home page, there are articles and
monographs that support our objectives as well as tools to support the
operations and management of our educational and research programs. The site can be searched with the Search link at the top of each page, where other links of general importance are also available. |
For More Info
Please contact us with any
questions you may have about PAMEAS, with suggestions about how we
can best serve you, or if you or your organization would like to help
support PAMEAS and our mission of Improving the Patient Experience.
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