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I run a healthcare management consulting company in Denmark. Our mission is to help healthcare organiszations become patient centered. It is essential that all healthcare providers encourage patients and their families to get informed and involved in care. To learn how to do this well, our clients must understand both why this is important, and how it can be achieved.

Although I have only been an SPM member for less than two months, I have found a wealth of useful information and inspiring discussions through the Society for Participatory Medicine. The people who take their time to discuss their thoughts and share information in general are so insightful and intelligent, it's truly inspirational.

And despite the SPM being very North American in outlook and membership, it's not difficult to make the "translation" of relevant nuggets to the very different Danish health care system. For example, we have a current Danish debate about electronic health records. In the SPM forum, there was a discussion about what "ownership" to data means and implies. A thorough discussion of the term ownershiop from a philosophical, legal and practical perspective ensued. This has helped me clarify some confusion in the Danish debate, which was useful in a recent speech I gave to a Danish audience.

I hope that SPM will grow to encompass more active members from various countries, and thus become an invaluable resource for a broad base of international members.

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