Patient Engagement October 12, 2017
Chronic disease management hinges on patients making lifestyle changes, not hitting a certain metric.
Taking a holistic, patient-centric approach to wellness is crucial to chronic disease management, according to recent research from the Christensen Institute. The paper argues that goal-setting outside of health outcomes will support a path toward better health.
Tackling chronic disease management is a major goal across the healthcare spectrum, primarily because it is such a widespread and costly issue, the researchers said.
“There can be no solution to the healthcare crisis that does not address America’s unchecked epidemic of chronic disease, which afflicts more than half our citizens and consumes 86 percent of the exorbitant $3.2 trillion spent each year on care,” wrote study authors Clayton...
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