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Meenan, Anna
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 7:52 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
Subject: Re: Do you Sermo?
Yes I did. The sermoites have been discussing same and have mostly
decided to take a wait-and-see attitude to the new relationship.
Anna Meenan, MD
OK with me Anna. BTW, did you see the AMA is now going to
'partner' with them? An interesting alliance.
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AMA and Sermo enter into a partnership to empower physicians
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Nation's largest physician organization teams with leading
online physician community to hear and act on physicians' needs in a way
never before possible
For immediate release
May 30, 2007
Cambridge, MA - The American Medical Association (AMA) and Sermo
today announced a collaborative agreement to empower physicians by
making their collective voice heard in a way never before possible. By
teaming with Sermo, the AMA will be able to address important
professional and public health issues in a multi-phase, multi-year
alliance aimed at improving medical practice, physician advocacy, and
patient care.
"The Sermo community represents an innovative forum for
physicians to share their voice with the AMA and discuss emerging issues
on the front lines of medicine," said Cecil B. Wilson, MD, chair of the
AMA Board. "Engaging with Sermo's virtual community adds to the
resources the AMA can call upon to rapidly assess and respond to the
issues and concerns of physicians across the Unites States."
The AMA and Sermo have been working together to create
initiatives that have a tangible value for physicians. "We're working
with Sermo to learn how we can use cutting edge Web technology to better
serve our physician members and help advance our strategic pillars of
advocacy, communications and involvement," said Dr. Wilson.
As part this relationship, AMA and Sermo will work together to:
Create a direct line of communication between physicians and AMA
leadership by allowing AMA to pose questions, get feedback, and observe
real-time discussions on Sermo about medical practice, treatment
options, and the latest advances in clinical care.
Include a "Discuss on Sermo" link in AMA print and online
publications, including the AMA's award-winning American Medical News,
which reach more than 350,000 physicians. This new link will allow
physicians nationwide to immediately discuss, survey, and corroborate
opinions about the latest health care news and research.
Leverage Sermo to help AMA policy development around public
health issues.
Create a special home in the Sermo community specifically
designed for AMA's physician members.
Amplify the most hotly debated issues among physicians within
the Sermo community by producing a "Top Postings" column in the weekly
AMA eVoice e-newsletter, which reaches more than 100,000 physicians
nationwide.
Nearly 75 percent of office-based physicians work alone or in
small group practices, with few opportunities to interact with peers or
their professional organizations. Physicians are further burdened by
increasing case loads, medical liability, reduced Medicare
reimbursement, unprecedented numbers of uninsured patients, and managed
care pressures on physician-patient relationships. In this environment,
today's physicians must manage more responsibilities with less time and
resources - all while trying to deliver the best possible care for
patients.
By leveraging Web 2.0 technology, Sermo is providing a much
needed online forum for physicians to interact. In just six months,
Sermo has become the "go-to" place for thousands of physicians
nationwide to ask and answer questions of each other, build consensus
around the latest medical trends, and exchange insights about drugs,
devices and treatment options. The Sermo community has rapidly become an
important new way for physicians to connect with each other, and now to
connect directly with professional associations such as the AMA.
"Sermo shows how new technologies can make a direct impact on
the practice of medicine," said CEO of Sermo, Daniel Palestrant, MD.
"We've established an entirely new information exchange never before
possible that is empowering physicians and giving them a collective
voice they've never had. Now the AMA will have a direct line to the
physician community at large and can instantaneously see trends and
issues challenging physicians nationwide. This relationship opens the
flood gates for hundreds of thousands of physicians to work together on
Sermo and apply their collective thinking to revolutionize medical
practice and better serve the public health."
###
About Sermo
Launched in September 2006, Sermo is already the largest online
physician community, ever. Sermo's Web-based platform provides a medium
for physicians to aggregate observations from daily practice then -
rapidly and in large numbers - challenge or corroborate each other's
opinions. This forum accelerates the discovery of emerging trends and
provides new insights into medications, devices and treatments. Through
Sermo, physicians exchange knowledge with each other the minute it is
learned and gain potentially life saving insights from colleagues as
they happen instead of waiting to read about them in conventional media
sources. Sermo harnesses the power of collective wisdom and enables
physicians to discuss new clinical findings, report unusual events, and
work together to improve patient care in a way never before possible.
Through its unique business model, Sermo is free to physicians and has
no advertising or promotion. Based on a system of information arbitrage,
Sermo allows healthcare organizations, financial services firms and
industry analysts to access the community's collective knowledge on a
subscription basis. For more information, visit http://www.sermo.com.
About the American Medical Association
The American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by
uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional
and public health issues. Working together, the AMA's quarter of a
million physician and medical student members are playing an active role
in shaping the future of medicine. For more information on the AMA,
please visit http://www.ama-assn.org.
For more information, please contact:
Gregory Shenk
Sermo Marketing Communications
(617) 497-1110
gshenk@sermo.com
Robert J. Mills
AMA Media Relations
(312) 464-5970
robert.mills@ama-assn.org
Last updated: May 29, 2007
Content provided by: Media Relations
Gordon
On May 31, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
OK gang, I have 3 takers, need 7 more. I gotta submit invites
in groups
of 10. They will not sell your e-mail address to anyone.
E-mail
addresses are not posted in the forums as they are here. The
entities
that pay for access to this site just get a concensus of
anonymous
physicians. They do not have direct access to you. You don't
even have
to give them your snail mail address unless you want them to
have a
place to send those 20-dollar checks. They instantly verify
that you
are indeed a licensed US physician with some sort of database
and some
questions that the general public would not know the answers to,
so
there are no trolls there.
Anna Meenan, MD
At Wed, 30 May 2007, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
Hey guys (and gals), are you looking for a place to interact
with docs
of all specialties, exchange information, tips, gripes,
whatever? This
is actually a pretty interesting concept in forums. Started by
an MD,
supported by organizations who are interested in what US docs
have to
say about things (interested enough to pay for access). It is
free to
licensed MD's and DO's of all specialties. In fact, if you post
to a
thread that someone is interested in the concensus on, they
might even
send YOU 20 bucks (though I've never gotten anything from them).
The biggest plus as far as I'm concerned is that you can gripe
about the
US medical system without el chiming in (US-licensed docs only
el,
sorry).
This forum is growing. I wouldn't be surprised if the Million
Med March
gets its start on sermo.
Check it out----http://www.sermo.com
If ten of you give me permission to send your e-mail address to
sermo,
they will send you an invite from me and I will get a free i-pod
when
you all sign up. Or you could just sign up at the website.
Oh btw, this site is also anonymous.
--
Anna Meenan, MD
OK with me Anna. BTW, did you see the AMA is now going to
'partner' with them? An interesting alliance.
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Nation's largest physician organization teams with leading
online physician community to hear and act on physicians' needs in a way
never before possible
For immediate release
May 30, 2007
Cambridge, MA - The American Medical Association (AMA) and Sermo
today announced a collaborative agreement to empower physicians by
making their collective voice heard in a way never before possible. By
teaming with Sermo, the AMA will be able to address important
professional and public health issues in a multi-phase, multi-year
alliance aimed at improving medical practice, physician advocacy, and
patient care.
"The Sermo community represents an innovative forum for
physicians to share their voice with the AMA and discuss emerging issues
on the front lines of medicine," said Cecil B. Wilson, MD, chair of the
AMA Board. "Engaging with Sermo's virtual community adds to the
resources the AMA can call upon to rapidly assess and respond to the
issues and concerns of physicians across the Unites States."
<http://www.ama-assn.org/go/board-bio>
The AMA and Sermo have been working together to create
initiatives that have a tangible value for physicians. "We're working
with Sermo to learn how we can use cutting edge Web technology to better
serve our physician members and help advance our strategic pillars of
advocacy, communications and involvement," said Dr. Wilson.
As part this relationship, AMA and Sermo will work together to:
* Create a direct line of communication between physicians
and AMA leadership by allowing AMA to pose questions, get feedback, and
observe real-time discussions on Sermo about medical practice, treatment
options, and the latest advances in clinical care.
* Include a "Discuss on Sermo" link in AMA print and
online publications, including the AMA's award-winning American Medical
News, which reach more than 350,000 physicians. This new link will allow
physicians nationwide to immediately discuss, survey, and corroborate
opinions about the latest health care news and research.
* Leverage Sermo to help AMA policy development around
public health issues.
* Create a special home in the Sermo community
specifically designed for AMA's physician members.
* Amplify the most hotly debated issues among physicians
within the Sermo community by producing a "Top Postings" column in the
weekly AMA eVoice e-newsletter, which reaches more than 100,000
physicians nationwide.
Nearly 75 percent of office-based physicians work alone or in
small group practices, with few opportunities to interact with peers or
their professional organizations. Physicians are further burdened by
increasing case loads, medical liability, reduced Medicare
reimbursement, unprecedented numbers of uninsured patients, and managed
care pressures on physician-patient relationships. In this environment,
today's physicians must manage more responsibilities with less time and
resources - all while trying to deliver the best possible care for
patients.
By leveraging Web 2.0 technology, Sermo is providing a much
needed online forum for physicians to interact. In just six months,
Sermo has become the "go-to" place for thousands of physicians
nationwide to ask and answer questions of each other, build consensus
around the latest medical trends, and exchange insights about drugs,
devices and treatment options. The Sermo community has rapidly become an
important new way for physicians to connect with each other, and now to
connect directly with professional associations such as the AMA.
"Sermo shows how new technologies can make a direct impact on
the practice of medicine," said CEO of Sermo, Daniel Palestrant, MD.
"We've established an entirely new information exchange never before
possible that is empowering physicians and giving them a collective
voice they've never had. Now the AMA will have a direct line to the
physician community at large and can instantaneously see trends and
issues challenging physicians nationwide. This relationship opens the
flood gates for hundreds of thousands of physicians to work together on
Sermo and apply their collective thinking to revolutionize medical
practice and better serve the public health."
###
About Sermo
Launched in September 2006, Sermo is already the largest online
physician community, ever. Sermo's Web-based platform provides a medium
for physicians to aggregate observations from daily practice then -
rapidly and in large numbers - challenge or corroborate each other's
opinions. This forum accelerates the discovery of emerging trends and
provides new insights into medications, devices and treatments. Through
Sermo, physicians exchange knowledge with each other the minute it is
learned and gain potentially life saving insights from colleagues as
they happen instead of waiting to read about them in conventional media
sources. Sermo harnesses the power of collective wisdom and enables
physicians to discuss new clinical findings, report unusual events, and
work together to improve patient care in a way never before possible.
Through its unique business model, Sermo is free to physicians and has
no advertising or promotion. Based on a system of information arbitrage,
Sermo allows healthcare organizations, financial services firms and
industry analysts to access the community's collective knowledge on a
subscription basis. For more information, visit http://www.sermo.com.
<http://www.sermo.com/>
About the American Medical Association
The American Medical Association helps doctors help patients by
uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional
and public health issues. Working together, the AMA's quarter of a
million physician and medical student members are playing an active role
in shaping the future of medicine. For more information on the AMA,
please visit www.ama-assn.org. <http://www.ama-assn.org/>
For more information, please contact:
Gregory Shenk
Sermo Marketing Communications
(617) 497-1110
gshenk@sermo.com <mailto:gshenk@sermo.com>
Robert J. Mills
AMA Media Relations
(312) 464-5970
robert.mills@ama-assn.org <mailto:robert.mills@ama-assn.org>
Last updated: May 29, 2007
Content provided by: Media Relations
Gordon
On May 31, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
OK gang, I have 3 takers, need 7 more. I gotta submit invites in
groups
of 10. They will not sell your e-mail address to anyone.
E-mail
addresses are not posted in the forums as they are here.
The entities
that pay for access to this site just get a concensus of
anonymous
physicians. They do not have direct access to you. You
don't even have
to give them your snail mail address unless you want
them to have a
place to send those 20-dollar checks. They instantly
verify that you
are indeed a licensed US physician with some sort of
database and some
questions that the general public would not know the
answers to, so
there are no trolls there.
Anna Meenan, MD
At Wed, 30 May 2007, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
Hey guys (and gals), are you looking for a place
to interact with docs
of all specialties, exchange information, tips,
gripes, whatever? This
is actually a pretty interesting concept in
forums. Started by an MD,
supported by organizations who are interested in
what US docs have to
say about things (interested enough to pay for
access). It is free to
licensed MD's and DO's of all specialties. In
fact, if you post to a
thread that someone is interested in the
concensus on, they might even
send YOU 20 bucks (though I've never gotten
anything from them).
The biggest plus as far as I'm concerned is that
you can gripe about the
US medical system without el chiming in
(US-licensed docs only el,
sorry).
This forum is growing. I wouldn't be surprised
if the Million Med March
gets its start on sermo.
Check it out----http://www.sermo.com
If ten of you give me permission to send your
e-mail address to sermo,
they will send you an invite from me and I will
get a free i-pod when
you all sign up. Or you could just sign up at
the website.
Oh btw, this site is also anonymous.
--
Anna Meenan, MD
