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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 Participation: The Power Shift in Healthcare

Patient Participation: The Power Shift in Healthcare

Where medical paternalism ends, patient empowerment begins - but “patient power” only thrives in a healthcare ecosystem where patients are co-producers of health.  Better-informed patients participate and are more involved in their own health. It takes meaningful patient engagement to do that. With healthcare’s power shift to the consumer, Gartner, a global research group, advised healthcare and life science CIOs “to lead digital efforts to improve engagement.&r...
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