Geri Baumblatt

Editorial Director
Emmi Solutions

Geri Lynn Baumblatt is an industry expert on shared decision making and patient engagement. For the past 11 years she’s overseen the creation of a large library of multimedia patient engagement, education, shared decision making, and behavior change Emmi programs and interactive phone calls. These programs have won numerous awards including Freddie Awards, the IHA Health Literacy Award, the Frank Netter Award, ClearMark Plain Language Awards, and the 4th Annual Leonard G. Doak Health Literacy Innovator Award.
She also hosts an annual Health Literacy Month blog series on Engaging the Patient. She regularly speaks and serves on health literacy and shared decision making panels for organizations like AHRQ, the Institute for Healthcare Advancement, Health Literacy Missouri, and the Center for Plain Language and recently joined the editorial board of the Journal of Patient Experience. She works with decision scientists, behavior change experts, patients, and clinicians; they draw on their research and experience to create content that helps patients engage in their care. She holds a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Denver.

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Thursday, February 12th, 2015

12:10 Shared Decision Making: Creating A Better Experience For Patients And Providers

Every day patients and clinicians meet at crossroads, faced with deciding what care is best for that individual. Even in an optimal setting with engaged patients and clinicians, shared decision making (SDM) isn’t easy. Hear about the challenges one family faced when trying to make decisions to treat their son with Crohn’s disease. Then hear from about the physician challenges: communicating complex risk information, treatment options, benefit and harm tradeoffs, all while trying to understand that patients goals, values, and preferences. Finally, hear how decision aids can help address these challenges and can prime and augment the SDM process so conversations are more effective.

Learning Objectives:
• Understand the real-world challenges SDM poses for patients, families, and clinicians
• Learn how decision aids help address challenges and how they help create a better, more effective experience for everyone
• Recognize why SDM and decision aids need to both deliver clear and unbiased information and also be emotionally intelligent