Inside Digital Health July 16, 2019
Accurate health information can directly impact one’s personal healthcare decision-making and affect their health outcomes. However, there is great disparity in the access to credible information sources, further complicated by the sources that patients prefer and trust. This places tremendous importance on patient education and engagement.
Patient engagement is defined as “actions individuals must take to obtain the greatest benefit from the healthcare services available to them,” according to the Center for Advancing Health (PDF). This degree of engagement is of paramount importance when it comes to taking medications. After all, as a Yoruba proverb says, “Medicine left in the bottle can’t help.”
Despite the best efforts from many healthcare providers, patients are not always fully engaged when it comes...
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