Two new text books are now available as reference supporting effective deployment design, technology utilization, and best practices for patient engagement. Transformative Healthcare Practice through Patient Engagement and Promoting Patient Engagement and Participation for Effective Healthcare Reform, authored by Guendalina Graffigna PhD, professor Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy, and scientific adviser, Consortium for Patient […]
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 […]
Hey Pharma! What do your clients really want?
The 2015 eXL ePatient Connections seminar in Philadelphia last week provided a clear message to the Pharma community…patients want to be involved in the development of care management and consume information relative to their treatment and condition. Comprehensive design initiatives ultimately focus on the end user functionality and usability. In this case the patient. […]
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 […]