Patient Education
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Patient Education is Changing—Are You?
Let’s start with the assumption that there has been a major paradigm shift in patient education...
For centuries, people looked to their doctors for advice on their health. Later healthcare teams grew, and we sought advice from many healthcare professionals including specialists, nurses, health educators, nutritionists, pharmacists, and many others.
Then along comes the internet, and now it is easy for us to research medical and wellness information online as well as reach out to others who share a similar condition or experience. Just as we look for advice from our peers before buying a new cell phone, we want to know what others have experienced before agreeing to a medical…
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Beyond Patient Engagement: How to Effectively Partner with Patients to Optimize Care
Patient engagement is a cornerstone of healthcare quality, driving active collaboration and shared decision-making among patients, families and providers. Now more than ever, patients are becoming informed consumers of healthcare services, leveraging increased access to their digital health records and extensive condition-specific information available online.
The Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring Are Wide Ranging
The data collected from remote patient monitoring devices can prevent hospital admissions and empower patients to improve their health.
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Digital health education in 2021: Driving impact through purposeful design
We cannot expect health care providers or patients to learn in the same-old ways, when their needs and ways of communicating with one another other have evolved so acutely and profoundly. Continuing and patient education must meet the needs of providers and patients in our radically different post-COVID world.
Do as the doctor says, not as he or she does
Doctors have far more information about health, and the benefits and risks of tests and treatments, than most of their patients. Yet when doctors need health care they act like much like their patients.
How to educate and motivate patients
Strong patient education can be established through a variety of mediums.
Off To College? Don't Forget To Pack A Plan For Your Health
For college freshmen who left home for the first time this year, learning to live with a roommate may be one of the easy challenges. For many, this is also the first time they will schedule medical appointments, fill prescriptions, and make decisions about their own health care. Unfortunately, many students aren't prepared to meet these basic life challenges. But with a little planning and parental guidance, college can be an opportunity for young adults to learn how to stay healthy and figure out how to get the right care when they are ill.
Patient Engagement – Using Your Blog
Video Education – You don’t need thousands of dollars of equipment to do reasonably good videos. A mobile phone, an inexpensive tripod and a script will suffice. Short (2-3 minute) videos that highlight new procedures, training or other educational content can be a great way to get in touch with patients.
Patient guardians as an instrument for person centered care
Person-centered care involves keeping the person at the center of the care planning and decision-making process. While the theory behind person-centered care is commonly shared, its application in healthcare settings is more challenging.
The Importance of Patient Education
Let’s face it… providers can tell patients exactly what to do and exactly how to do it while they’re at the office, but do they remember it when they get home?
The Patient Education Chasm – Part 1
We are at an inflection point in patient education pursuits across the globe. A dramatic change in health, healing, and well-being lies just on the other side of what I call the patient education chasm – the rift between what healthcare organizations envision for their patients’ educational experiences, and the ability of those organizations to effectively deliver that experience.
The Patient Education Chasm – Part 2
Organizations from small medical offices to large health systems are adopting beliefs and taking actions to make the patient education chasm smaller. The first factor that is narrowing the gap is a vision for how patient education can change.
Why Patient Education is Vital for Engagement, Better Outcomes
As a part of the healthcare industry's move toward patient-centered care, providers need to focus on educating patients on their conditions and treatment options to foster better engagement.
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5 strategies for providing effective patient education
Patient education was once a job for physicians, but today's nurses assume most of the responsibility for educating patients and helping them to become responsible for their own health status. For patients to take a proactive role in their own care, they need to comprehend their condition and work to prevent or minimize complications from any chronic illnesses.
PlatformQ Health
Whether we’re engaging clinicians on the front lines of medicine or educating patients and their caregivers to help empower them to take control of their health, the goal is always the same: to deliver measurable improved outcomes by distributing the right education to the right person, at the right time.
PatientEngagementHIT
The editors at PatientEngagementHIT, part of the Xtelligent Healthcare Media network, speak with subject-matter experts and report on how to leverage health information technology to engage patients, communities, and populations.
The Wellness Network
A leader in health, wellness, patient education and engagement solutions that improve outcomes for health systems, providers, payors, and advertisers.
ViewMedica
More than 1,888 medical videos to help you inform patients, improve outcomes and reduce readmissions
How to Identify Patient Learning Styles: Teaching Patients More Effectively with Infographics
Until the mid-20th century, doctors dominated the decision-making process. But since then, the relationship between physicians and patients has transitioned to something more like a partnership. Patients are now considered active participants in their health. Easy-to-understand patient education infographics that match patient learning styles are critical to educating patients and helping them grasp information immediately.
Learning to Listen to Patients’ Stories
Narrative medicine programs teach doctors and other caregivers “sensitive interviewing skills” and the art of “radical listening” to improve patient care.
