Although efforts to control and reverse the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic are showing signs of success, this remains a challenge that demands the full attention of everyone involved in healthcare. Taylor Healthcare, therefore, announces that it will, again, postpone nominations for the 2021 Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement. Clinicians and other healthcare workers, health systems […]
Patient engagement has taken a hit from the novel coronavirus outbreak. Since early March when “lockdown” upended normal life across the country, many patients have disengaged from healthcare—missed care they needed either because appointments had been cancelled or because they felt the risk of catching COVID-19 outweighed the risk of delayed care. Even highly activated […]
Lifeworld…is the background of ordinary life: mainly private, somewhat naive and biased, but also authentic and essential to our satisfaction as human beings. – Peter Levine Health problems happen in the “lifeworld” – the deeply individual, imperfect, meaningful and authentic experience each of us has living in the world. The way our health care system […]
Last fall, healthcare IT leaders came together in Salt Lake City, Utah, to discuss the future of patient engagement. This Patient Engagement Keystone Summit sought to accomplish a few things: Define patient engagement and establish a framework. Establish a common, patient-centric language. Align health information technology (HIT) capabilities and expectations. Explore patient engagement outcome measurements. […]
Editor’s note: This post, originally published in June 2018, was the third post in Trudeau’s series on how to engage patients through written materials. In February, he wrote about three pillars to creating health-literate material: purpose, audience, and input. In March, he offered two tips for writing engaging content: use question-style headings and explain technical terms […]
Lifeworld…is the background of ordinary life: mainly private, somewhat naive and biased, but also authentic and essential to our satisfaction as human beings. – Peter Levine Health problems happen in the “lifeworld” – the deeply individual, imperfect, meaningful and authentic experience each of us has living in the world. The way our health care system […]
Earlier this month, I reviewed notable articles about patient and family engagement published in 2018. Reflecting my own bias, all of the articles on my list reflected experience in the United States. The U.S. bias was subconscious until I discovered a special issue of Healthcare Quarterly,a journal published by Longwoods Publishing Corp., based in Toronto. […]
The new year often inspires top-10 lists of past accomplishments or goals for the coming year. Looking back at published literature on the topic of patient engagement in 2018, I see too many to review comprehensively and too much variation to allow a few – or ten – to pop up as the “best.” It’s […]
Happy New Year! As you are reflecting on your patient engagement accomplishments from 2018, please consider taking a few moments to nominate yourself, a colleague or other outstanding program or project for the 2019 Sherman Award for Excellence in Patient Engagement for 2019 Sherman Citation for Excellence in Pediatric Patient Engagement. Nominations for the 2019 […]
On October 2, 2018, healthcare IT leaders came together in Salt Lake City, Utah, to discuss the future of patient engagement. This Patient Engagement Keystone Summit sought to accomplish a few things: Define patient engagement and establish a framework. Establish a common, patient-centric language. Align health information technology (HIT) capabilities and expectations. Explore patient engagement […]