Interview with Dr. Jessie Gruman on What Does "Patient Engagement" Mean and Why It's Essential in Improving Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes (January 29, 2013)
Interview with Dr. Jessie Gruman on What Does "Patient Engagement" Mean and Why It's Essential in Improving Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes (January 29, 2013)
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Listen Now During this 28 minute podcast Dr. Gruman explains briefly the mission of the Center for Advancing Health. She then defines what is patient engagement or patient participation by identifying ten categories that add up to 43 specific patient engagement behaviors. Dr. Gruman then explains why patients are all too frequently unengaged in their own health care due to, for example, low literacy or health literacy, disability, etc. She discusses how patients can actively engage in their own care using her own experiences as a cancer survivor as an example and what health care providers and regulators are doing to improve patient decision making and patient engagement measurement. The interview concludes with comments on the work of the ACA-mandated Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the role of family or informal caregivers.
Interview with Dr. Jessie Gruman on What Does "Patient Engagement" Mean and Why It's Essential in Improving Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes (January 29, 2013)
Interview with Dr. Jessie Gruman on What Does…
Interview with Dr. Jessie Gruman on What Does "Patient Engagement" Mean and Why It's Essential in Improving Health Care Delivery and Patient Outcomes (January 29, 2013)
Listen Now During this 28 minute podcast Dr. Gruman explains briefly the mission of the Center for Advancing Health. She then defines what is patient engagement or patient participation by identifying ten categories that add up to 43 specific patient engagement behaviors. Dr. Gruman then explains why patients are all too frequently unengaged in their own health care due to, for example, low literacy or health literacy, disability, etc. She discusses how patients can actively engage in their own care using her own experiences as a cancer survivor as an example and what health care providers and regulators are doing to improve patient decision making and patient engagement measurement. The interview concludes with comments on the work of the ACA-mandated Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the role of family or informal caregivers.