Patient Engagement December, 2016
Ensuring patient access to healthcare is an important piece of the patient engagement puzzle.
Patient engagement, consumer satisfaction, and patient access to healthcare are three of the most critical pieces of the value-based care puzzle.
As outcomes, satisfaction, and patient loyalty become more important to financial security for healthcare organizations, providers need to emphasize the use of person-centered care philosophies to ensure that patients can easily and affordably engage in the relationships they need to maintain wellness.
A non-partisan group of senators said it well in a letter urging the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to reassess patient access to care:
“We have heard from several patient groups with chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel...