Our Approach
AMPLIFY the Patient Voice
Promote the patient narrative to enhance the engagement and collaboration amongst health care stakeholders.
Apply authentic Patient Experience programming to critical healthcare issues.
Collaborate with essential healthcare stakeholders.
Drive Engagement of Patient Centred Care and Navigation
Social Impacts
Empower Patient Self-Management
Increase Patient Participation
Improve Treatment Compliance
Raise Patient Safety Standards
Membership and Patient Arsenal
Personal Advocacy
Enabling Personalized Medicine
Patient Bill of Rights
Patient Engagement Whitepaper TM
Patient Survival Guide TM
Innovative Stakeholder Advocacy Strategies
Advocacy Training
Critical Issues POA
Disease Awareness
Burden of Illness
Access & Equity
Read a blog post from the 'WHY SANDPILE?' series...
Patient Survival Guide while in the clutch of the Canadian Healthcare System
In trying to provide tools and a map to survive the patient journey, maybe we should first reflect on the whole idea of the Health care “system”. Ideally, our healthcare safety net, as a complex system, would have many of the interconnected moving parts working synergistically for a common outcome. In practice we know that whether due to funding, professional territoriality, politics, geography, structure, governance…. to name but a few, the Canadian Healthcare system is completely fragmented and silo’ed.
In the fascinating book “How Nature Works” (1996) by physicist Per Bak, he talks about the “Sand Pile effect”....