| Introduction to PAMEAS |
| The Patient Medical Association (PAMEAS) was founded on the belief that our healthcare system needs to be more patient-centric, innovative, and informative. We strive to reach those goals through our publications, educational institute, and grant and scholarship foundation programs.
Our healthcare system was built around policies and programs put in place decades ago. However, the economic, demographic, and technologic environment has changed dramatically and healthcare now represents a $2.5 trillion system that consumes nearly 20% of our GDP. Unlike most other industries, healthcare policies and programs continue to reflect issues of the past, rather than the realities of the present and our society cannot support the massive growth in the cost of this outdated system. We feel that if healthcare delivery were more patient-centric, innovative, and informative, many of our problems in this industry would start to take care of themselves.
Trends that are impacting our healtcare delivery system that define our current educational efforts inlude:
- Cost-cutting measures in healthcare delivery
- Consolidation of insurance programs under CMS guidelines
- Doctor shortages
- Expanded role of nursing and other physician extenders
- Networks dropping “elite” hospitals
- Increasing “Patient-Focused” healthcare to reduce costs
- The internet is now cited by patients as their first source of healthcare information, ranking above doctors and hospitals
- Disseminated health information via social-network types sites on the internet
- Increased use of mobile monitoring and telemedicine systems
- Growth of “personalized medicine” to customize patient diagnosis and treatment
- Funding will be redistributed from treating sickness in acute settings to keeping people well outside hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors' clinics
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| Past Projects |
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PAMEAS ands its founder have an established record of producing high
quality medical educational projects for patients and healthcare professionals,
including these recent activities:
- Patient Education Programs
- Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Management
- Cosmetic Techniques and Technologies Program
- Managing Peripheral Artery Disease
- Understanding Carotid Artery Disease
- Physician Education Programs
- 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
- 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
- The Cosmetic Bootcamp
For a complete list of projects we've managed, please visit this page.
Some of our projects currently under development can be found here.
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| The PAMEAS Digest |
| PAMEAS maintains the PAMEAS Digest website as a service to its readers.The PAMEAS Digest provides you the healthcare news and information you need to know in order to be a more informed and empowered healthcare consumer. Content is added and rotated continually.
Stories posted on the home page are divided into the following categories:
- Top Stories and Headlines
- New stories posted to the Digest
- 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 original articles and
monographs that support our objectives. 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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