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| Sharon D. Anderson Stroke Survivors Tattler |
What is an engaged patient?
- Patient understands the disease process, and assumes role as the daily self-manager,
- Family and caregivers are engaged in/supportive of patient’s self-management.
Why are we talking about patient engagement?
Patient engagement is seen as strategy to:
- help patients prevent and effectively self-manage their health (stroke, diabetes, and other chronic conditions),
- Improve the patient’s experience with health professionals and their health,
- Improve the quality of care,
- Promote population health, and
- Contain burgeoning health costs.
What is the difference between traditional patient education and “patient engagement” education?
Radcliffe-Branch, D (2014, October). My tool box: The building blocks of self-care Presented to MUHC-ISAI, Montreal, PQ.
What are patients expected to do?
You are expected to participate fully in your health care.
Categories of engagement behaviors from the Center for Advancing Health:
- Find Good Health Care
- Participate in Your Treatment
- Communicate with Your Doctors
- Promote Your Health
- Organize Your Health Care
- Get Preventive Health Care
- Pay for Your Health Care
- Plan for Your End-of-Life Care
- Make Good Treatment Decisions
- Seek Knowledge About Your Health
Policy makers and clinicians are expected to support you in being an engaged patient.
Instead of just providing patients with a diagnosis, prescription and a pamphlet or fact sheet on their health condition or medications, health professionals can now refer patients to a range of apps such as:
- “Wearables”, monitors such as a pedometer or Fitbit,
- Management apps on your Smartphone or the Internet,
- Telehealth, and
- Patient portals on the Internet.
How do physicians view these tools – and how are their views affecting consumer adoption?
Physician Perceptions of Patient Engagement Affect Consumer Use
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