Toward a New Science of Patient Engagement
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Last July I participated in a workshop on life after cancer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington. They’ve just published the final report, Long-term Survivorship Care after Cancer Treatment: Proceedings of a Workshop. It’s a free 160 page PDF.
If you’re, frankly, a visionary who sees that the power structure in medicine is flipping, I urge you to come to La Jolla next month.
MedCity News, one of the best health IT publishers, is hosting its annual “ENGAGE” conference. The mighty Eric Topol is speaking the first morning, and I’m doing the closing keynote on day 2. (I call him mighty because that’s what I think about his vision. So sue me.:-)
Register with promotion code SpeakerReferral and get $500 off, so your cost is only $395. That’s a heck of a good price for this list of speakers – even better than the $300 early-bird discount shown above.
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If you’re a fan of healthcare improvement, or of the e-patient movement, or social movements in general, and if you know anything about tweetchats in general or the #HCLDR tweetchat in specific, mark your calendar for next Tuesday night, 8:30-9:30 ET. I’ll be that week’s guest, and it’s going to be wild and wooly and intentionally mind-bending.
In short, ten years ago the e-patient movement was getting born – well, it already existed, but it was beginning to get noticed, and with social movements getting noticed makes all the difference.
Emergence is a scientific principle that I’ll say more about over the weekend. Click the photo above to go to the HCLDR blog post to learn more about it in this context. In short, ten years ago the e-patient movement was like individual birds, and emergence is when new behaviors emerge in flocks of something.
Things are changing. Please click and learn. We’ll have more to say afterward.
On Monday, August 8, my state’s Foundation for Healthy Communities (HealthyNH.com) is hosting an event where I’ll be speaking, titled “Improving Care at the Bedside through Effective Patient and Family Engagement.” It’s mostly intended for New Hampshire people, but organizer Tanya Lord says “I don’t think we would turn anyone away.”:-)
So come on down! Or up, or over, or whatever. Here’s a very short video introduction. (Email subscribers, if you can’t see the video, click the headline to come online.)
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This post is part brag, part teach, part challenge.
Last summer I did a webinar about patient engagement (here’s the replay) for Phreesia, a company that makes an iPad-like tablet that integrates a lot of steps to get you (the patient) into the provider’s computer system. Afterward, they said they “monitor the attention level of the attendees (it’s a GoToWebinar feature) … and it was the highest I’ve ever seen it.”
Really? GoToWebinar feature? Yep, the system keeps track of how long attendees stay, whether they ask questions, and even whether they listen but stop watching by switching to another window while listening to the audio.