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 […]
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 […]
PATIENT ENGAGEMENT: 4 GOLDEN RULES!
I recently came back to a milestone reading: “Patient engagement: what works” written by Angela Coulter on 2012. I truly suggest this paper for its clearness and concreteness. Angela Coulter is one of the most imminent scholars who dedicated her work and research to scientifically define what patient engagement is and how it may be […]