patient engagement – Health Care Social Media

Healthcare Innovation: Made With Patients

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Editor

This week I was in Basel, Switzerland, to deliver a keynote presentation at the DayOne Conference, Shaping The Future of Health. It was a great experience and heartening to meet so many start-up companies with a real interest in working with patients in codesigning healthcare solutions.

I believe that a genuine partnership model with patients and their families and carers, will not just improve outcomes for patients but can transform the healthcare industry. I urged the audience to go beyond the patient label and engage with patients as people with valuable lived experience and expertise that they can learn from.

But even with the best intentions, it’s easy to get it wrong. So I shared a model of patient engagement based on a true partnership model that does justice to people as unique, multi-dimensional individuals who want to live the best lives they can.

As always I posted my presentation on SlideShare so please feel free to flip through the deck and if you have any questions or comments to make, I’d love to hear them.

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Get engaged: How to be a more powerful patient

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Editor

Patient engagement has been called “the blockbuster drug of the century.” Being engaged means being an active participant in your health care and health decisions. Often the results are better medical care with fewer hassles. This video with Eve Harris, Healthcare Writer and Patient Advocate covers tips for improving your experiences with the healthcare system and becoming more actively engaged in your own well-being.

#HCSM, Patient Engagement, Storify

Engaging Patients Through HealthCare Social Media

Posted on April 9, 2013April 9, 2013 by Editor

Here are some interesting excerpts from a discussion on patient engagement and health care social media at the recent Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) meeting.

We owe it to patients & public to use social media to disseminate research, providing at moment of need — Wing Of Zock (@wingofzock)

Social media is listening, key to understanding what patients need @tedeytan

Twitter mentor: example of power of word-of-mouth in social media#hcsm” I think we should do more #mentoring — Anthony Cannella, MD (@apc_md)

Investing in more training and positive role models in #hcsm will be key to teaching the next generation — Wing Of Zock (@wingofzock)

We cannot teach our next generation of physicians to engage in social media, if current faculty is not engaged @doctor_v

#hcsm is about relationship, and how physicians can connect to patients directly. @tedeytan “we listen”

[View the story “#AAMCJtMtg: Patient Engagement and #HCSM” on Storify]

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There is no app for engaging patients in their own health care absent a strong doctor-patient relationship

Posted on March 23, 2013March 25, 2013 by Editor

Patient Engagement Is A Physician-Patient Communication Challenge…Not A Health Information Technology Challenge

There is no app for engaging patients in their own health care absent a strong doctor-patient relationship.

See on healthecommunications.wordpress.com

#HCSM, E-Patient

mHealth Applications Must Foster Patient Engagement

Posted on March 11, 2013March 12, 2013 by Editor

To help providers increase patient engagement through mHealth, the NeHC has developed a five-step patient engagement framework.

“Patient engagement” is one of the biggest buzz phrases in mobile healthcare (mHealth). Dr. Fastad Mostashari, who serves as National Coordinator for IT the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), has said that “patient engagement is the blockbuster drug of the century.”

See on www.healthtechzone.com

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Doctors Need More Incentives to Engage Patients

Posted on February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 by Editor

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

Report from IOM workshop on what can be done to increase knowledge and research on how to improve health. Advice offered to physicians and other providers during the IOM workshop included:

Teaching patients how to obtain and use their personal health information
Teaching consumers how to navigate the health system effectively
Presenting patients with options and listening to their concerns and feedback
Establishing a connection and relationship with patients and their caregivers
Not using jargon when presenting information to patients and caregivers
Finding new ways to listen to patients and their families

See on www.medpagetoday.com

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Patient engagement important, but loosely defined

Posted on February 27, 2013July 10, 2013 by Editor

What exactly is patient engagement? According to the National eHealth Collaborative’s 2012 stakeholder survey released last month, there is little agreement among health leaders. They currently use a variety of definitions that range from patients having access to educational materials to patients using their own electronic health record to transmit data to outside organizations.

Survey respondents were asked to choose their two top definitions from among 10 choices. They also could write in their own definition. The top five responses include:

Patient uses educational material and online resources to learn about better health or their own health conditions (64.0 percent)Patient uses tools and resources to manage his or her medical record and other health data (58.7 percent)Patient feels comfortable challenging doctor when something doesn’t seem right or when explanations are not clear (41.3 percent)Patient feels comfortable discussing health issues and questions with doctor or nurse face-to-face (38.4 percent)Patient communicates with doctor about changes in health status in a timely way (38.4 percent)

Survey respondents may not define patient engagement the same way, but an overwhelming 95 percent said the issue is “very important” or “important” in transforming healthcare. Only 5 percent called it “somewhat important,” while no respondents characterized it as “not important.”

See on www.fiercehealthcare.com