The second key factor is radical personalisation. Moving beyond basic patient segmentation, true personalisation means ...

Mobile and wireless technologies are helping give rise to a new form of clinical decision support that's being called "patient activation." "We're making a category that really hasn't existed," ...

As part of healthcare reform, patient engagement is becoming an important area of focus. Most recently, patient activation, as part of engagement, has been studied; however, interventions to improve ...

Mobile health (mHealth) and a patient activation program could serve as a model for improving health outcomes for patients in outpatient clinical settings by decreasing atherosclerotic cardiovascular ...

Current policies aimed at improving the quality of health care in the United States have fallen short. However, a novel approach to achieving quality outcomes tested by the Center for Medicare and ...

This observational evaluation compared an adult medical care coordination intervention with usual care and found that the intervention was associated with significant improvements in patient ...

Healthcare decision-makers increasingly recognize that patients who are more actively involved in their personal health care will experience better health outcomes and incur lower costs. While there ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While patient activation is “a fairly new term in the kidney space,” a speaker argued it is now necessary for ...

The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to create financial incentives for providers to improve patient outcomes while controlling costs of care. Unlike the traditional “fee for service” (FFS) model, ...