Patient Experience Symposium

Student Midwife Creates App To Recognize Conditions On Black And Brown Skin ?? “Ruby Jackson, a 23-year-old student midwife at the University of Brighton, has developed an app, ‘Melanatal,’ to address gaps in the recognition of maternal and neonatal conditions on Black and brown skin. Her app aims to educate both clinicians and patients on how conditions such as jaundice, pre-eclampsia, and mastitis appear on darker skin tones, a subject historically underrepresented in medical training. Jackson’s inspiration for Melanatal came during her placement at a neonatal unit in Ghana, where she realized that key symptoms—like jaundice—present differently on darker skin. She had previously been taught to look for ‘yellow skin,’ which isn’t always applicable to Black or brown patients. This moment led her to understand how easily signs could be missed, prompting her to develop a solution. The app, currently in development, will feature hyper-realistic medical illustrations and aims to reduce race-based health inequalities. ‘This app will help provide the much-needed information for black and brown women who are nearly four times more likely to die in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in comparison to white women,’ Jackson told University of Brighton. ‘Through Melanatal, clinicians can get better knowledge to care for black babies who have the highest rate of both stillbirth and neonatal death.’” Read more ?? https://lnkd.in/eVsBgiBa #WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM #STEMGems #GiveGirlsRoleModels

We are incredibly excited to announce that registration is open for the inaugural Women in Healthcare World Congress, March 28-30 in Boston. Join us and be inspired, empowered, and ready to take your healthcare career to new heights! Learn more — and register — now at hubs.li/Q02SdQfh0. We already have an incredible list of speakers that includes: Helen Riess, M.D., Gopika Senthilkumar, Liz Powell, Jeanette Mladenovic, Shereese Maynard, MS, MBA She/Her, Julie Silver, MD, Monica Bertagnolli, Nancy Spector, Reshma Jagsi, Shikha Jain, MD, FACP, Roya Zandparsa, Michellene Davis, Esq., Olivia Schlabach, Andrew Donovan, Danielle Blanch Hartigan, Wayne Sotile, Tammie Chang, MD, Luisa Duran, M.D., Susan Hingle, Marion McCrary MD FACP FAMWA NBC-HWC, Jessi Gold, MD MS, Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH #whleaders #womenhealthcareleaders #womeninhealthcare #whwc24

The regenerative farming approach Krista Hirschmann, PhD shared at the Patient Experience Symposium offers healthcare a powerfully positive metaphor to?learn and adapt from.?If we are going to reverse the downward spiral of health and healthcare in our country, we will need to widen the aperture of the metaphors and mindsets we apply, and ultimately create a mosaic of metaphors that lead to a healthcare system that is healthful, humanistic and sustainable. #healthcare #futureofhealthcare #healthcaremetaphor #humanizinghealthcare #healthleadership #beyondthewalls

It FINALLY happened to me at a conference last week... Last week I had the chance to attend the #PatientExperienceSymposium in Boston. It was my first time at the conference, but it was one that had been on my radar for many years. It was very educational and engaging. The keynotes were particularly good - Josh Robinson, Dr. Kedar Mate, Tommy Whitelaw, Dr. Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA, and Edward Marx each had great insights. Plus their passion for healthcare was clear. There was one unexpected surprise at the conference...AI was NOT the big topic of discussion. Instead it was KINDNESS. That is the first time in two years where AI did not dominate the proceedings. I was wondering when this would happen, and last week, it finally did. Check out my summary of the conference: https://lnkd.in/gJA6XC8X Thank you Bill Doherty! #ptexp #patientexperience #healthcare #hcmktg #SwaayHealth

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The 8th Annual Patient Experience Symposium is wrapping up…the crowd stuck around for our closing keynote, Edward Marx

Day Two of Patient Experience Symposium is underway..kicked off by Dr. Kedar Mate

We laughed, we cried, we sang, we danced. The amazing Tommy Whitelaw provided some inspiration on Day 2 of the conference. #patientexperiencesymposium #pxexperience #pxsymposium

What an amazing start to the 2024 conference! So much great inspiration shared — and we're just getting started! #patientexperiencesymposium #pxsymposium24 #patientexperience

Is there anything hopeful happening in primary care? That was one of the topics of my lunch discussion today at the Patient Experience Symposium with Katherine Gergen Barnett and Barbra Rabson. I so enjoyed spending time in person with these #healthleaders as it is people like them that give me hope. I wonder how you would have answered the question if you had joined our lunch chat? What IS bringing you hope in primary care right now? #primarycare #patientexperience #humanizinghealthcare