Without patient engagement the industry cannot fully understand patient needs and work with patients to achieve common goals. The patient should be at the heart of the healthcare industry – a fact ...

Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety in the hospital, ambulatory care setting, and community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement in safety are still ...

Words matter. In the pharma industry, “patient engagement” and “patient centricity” might seem like interchangeable bits of corporate jargon. But the difference between them is not like the choice ...

Rarely has a single phrase so captured – and enraptured – the entire healthcare industry. The last time I recall this fervor was in the late '90's with "consumer directed healthcare." Not surprisingly ...

Patient engagement is a hot topic among healthcare provider organization executives. Especially as people have begun approaching providers more as consumers than patients, it is critical that ...

Implementing patient engagement technology can help health systems involve and empower their patients to achieve better health outcomes – and better clinical and business outcomes for the provider ...

Patient and family engagement offers a promising pathway toward better-quality health care, more-efficient care, and improved population health. Since definitions of patient engagement and conceptions ...

What is the work you’re leading at Boehringer Ingelheim? I work in a center of excellence in the US organization focused on advancing patient engagement and our patient-centric culture. My role is ...

Ajay Prasad is the CEO of GMR Web Team, a full-service healthcare digital marketing agency focused on patient acquisition and retention. Patient engagement has always been an important component of ...