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Patient Activation: LifeWIRE Use Cases

Patient Activation: LifeWIRE Use Cases

Patient engagement encourages patient participation, and patient participation encourages patient activation. These are stages in the patient’s partnership in healthcare, with each stage contributing to improving clinical outcomes. It’s about shared decision making.To empower patients for shared decision making, he/she needs to be actively involved. To make a partner out of patients, he/she needs to be able to take independent actions pertaining to health and care. That willingness, ...
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Patient Communication vs Patient Engagement

Patient Communication vs Patient Engagement

Relationships are built on communication and engagement. To engage, you must communicate. To communicate, you must engage. In doctor-patient relationship, this is not a question of the “chicken or the egg.”  They are both essential in a patient-centered care. The patient can be communicating but not really engaged in his healthcare, or can be engaged but not truly communicating. As the healthcare system is evolving, it does, and will, require increasing clinical produc...
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Patient Experience: The Customer Journey in Healthcare

Patient Experience: The Customer Journey in Healthcare

You need a healthcare provider. Full stop. But patient experience is the key to differentiate quality, value and outcomes. When so many healthcare options are available, quality of care becomes the biggest differentiator. If clinicians think and act like they are indispensable, they’re in for a rude awakening. According to Beckers Hospital Review, “healthcare consumers increasingly view their experience with a provider as a key consideration for determining if they'll r...
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Dr. Tech·ie (ˈtekē) : The Anesthesiologist Who’s Into IT

Dr. Tech·ie (ˈtekē) : The Anesthesiologist Who’s Into IT

To be or not to be techie is no longer a choice - it is a need now. For anesthesiologists, “being techie” is not just about being tech savvy - it is understanding healthcare technologies and how to best leverage them to improve patient care and outcomes. When it comes to adopting new technologies, the anesthesiologist is a natural. The tools in his or her practice - from anesthesia equipment to automation of clinical data - are going digital, and they’re adapting with...
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