E-health: the new frontier of healthcare The use of new communication technologies in health management is labeled eHealth. It is a broad term that encompasses a broad range of phenomena, conceptions and instruments. Generally speaking, eHealth technologies such as those driven by the Internet, can enable patients to easily have access to health information and […]
MEASURING PATIENT ENGAGEMENT: A MUST FOR EFFECTIVE HEALTHCARE REFORM
The fast pace of change in the healthcare system requires patients to be more and more aware of their care options and be active agents in evaluating options about where and when to seek care. Patients are no longer passive recipients of care; instead, they are empowered consumers of medical products and services and are […]
THE PATIENT HEALTH ENGAGEMENT MODEL: evidence based guidelines to improve healthcare
Despite the growing “buzz” about patient engagement and the different attempts to define how this is achieved, patients’ voice about this process has been fairly neglected so far. At present, scarce attention has been paid to patients’ perspectives about what engagement in healthcare is, how desirable it may be, and situations and the drivers may […]
The “happiness formula” for successful patient engagement
Chronic disease is recognized as having a large impact on patient quality of life (QoL), which can bedefined as an individual’s satisfaction or happiness with life in domains he or she considers important. Successful patient engagement is related to a positive shift in the ways in which patients perceive self and life and experience empowerment […]
DON’T CALL ME PATIENT! Rhetorical claims and false myths of participatory medicine
For several decades, healthcare practices have a shared and recurring idea that, be effective, they must acknowledge the role of their receiver. Particularly, Patient Centered Medicine (PCM), by deeply challenging the past dominant bio-medical paradigm, refocused healthcare organizations and procedures from the sole centrality of these professionals, to a better consideration of “patients’ voices” in […]