Winners and finalists for the 2018 Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement will be announced this afternoon, Thursday, May 24, at the IHI/NPSF Patient Safety Congress and posted here. The Sherman Award is conferred by Taylor Healthcare and the IHI/NPSF Lucian Leape Institute on behalf of EngagingPatients.org, the online community that sponsors the award. […]
For those of us who specialize in patient safety, the field is very much about the science of improvement, measuring performance, testing initiatives, and keeping on top of the latest research. Patient engagement is critical to our efforts, because the voice of experience adds valuable insight and direction to health professionals and leaders seeking to […]
In just a few weeks, at the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) Patient Safety Congress in Orlando, we will learn which individual or organization is to receive this year’s Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement. The NPSF Lucian Leape Institute began its collaboration with Engagingpatients.org to confer this award in the wake of a […]
Editor’s note: This week’s guest contribution comes from NPSF President Tejal Gandhi’s blog which looks at health literacy through the lens of patient safety, offering health care professionals guidance in becoming better communicators. If you’ve ever misheard a conversation or misread directions, you know the pitfalls of written and spoken language. Messages are not […]
It is with great joy I heard the OpenNotes Collaborative was named institutional winner of the John Q. Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement, at the NPSF Patient Safety Congress in May, 2014. In our 24 by 7 ecosystem, we often miss the ability to prioritize the connection between people, the real connections that […]
When we talk about patient and family engagement, it’s tough not to consider the barriers. Problems with health literacy, for example, may hinder patients’ understanding of diagnoses, medication regimens, and care plans. Fear of being considered “difficult” may prevent patients from speaking up. Providers may not have to tools, training, or time to actively engage […]
Every patient is different. And, so it seems, is every definition of patient engagement. No real revelation there. But it does expose a foundational imperative — where does patient engagement start? The easy answer, of course, is with the patient. But reality shows us that it often starts with caregivers and health care administrators who […]
As a patient advocate for more than a decade, I felt exhilarated when I first read, Safety is Personal, the Report on Consumer Engagement in Patient Safety published by the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute. It gets to the point quickly with its call to action: Engage patients and families as partners. While […]
This week, the National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week, a time to recognize and celebrate the many advances in patient safety over the years and the vast amount of work currently being done. This year’s theme urges patients to Navigate Your Health…Safely, which we believe can only be done when patients and […]