For over twenty years Danny Sands, MD has worked at the intersection of health care, technology, and business. His career began at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he trained in clinical informatics and went on to develop and implement numerous systems to improve clinical care delivery and patient engagement. He has served as chief medical officer for Zix Corporation and chief medical informatics officer at Cisco providing both internal and external health IT leadership and helping key customers with business and clinical transformation. He currently serves double duty as Chief Medical Officer for Medisafe and continues to see patients as a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Sands has earned degrees from Brown University, Ohio State University, Harvard School of Public Health, and trained at Boston City Hospital and Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. Sands is the recipient of numerous health IT awards, has been elected to fellowship in both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics, and is a founder and co-chair of the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine. He is the co-author, with e-Patient Dave deBronkart, of Let Patients Help.
The conversation about medication shouldn’t end when the prescription is written. Physicians need to be accessible to patients to talk about how the medication is working for them, how often they are using it as prescribed, and what barriers they have to using it.