The Patient Engagement Imperative

Patient engagement – the PaCER model

Background Training citizens living with various health conditions to design and conduct health research, using adapted methods of qualitative inquiry, paves the way for new approaches. Patient and Community Engagement Researchers (PaCERs) collaborate with health professionals, policy makers and engage other patients in all phases of research from setting study questions, agendas, implementatio...

The Importance of Patient Engagement

Patient engagement is related to patient behaviour, since what people do in their everyday lives largely determines their health and their subsequent need for healthcare. The influence of patient behaviour on health outcomes can be observed across the entire disease state from preventing illness to the management of long-term chronic health conditions. Patients who are more engaged in their hea...

The imperative of culture: a quantitative analysis of the impact of culture on workforce engagement, patient experience, physician engagement, value-based purchasing, and turnover

Current uncertainty for the future of the health care landscape is placing an increasing amount of pressure on leadership teams to be prepared to steer their organization forward in a number of potential directions. It is commonly recognized among health care leaders that culture will either enable or disable organizational success. However, very few studies empirically link culture to health c...

Leadership for patient engagement

Tailoring patient information to encourage patient engagement

This paper proposes a new method for tailoring health information based on an individual’s dominant attitudes and information processing style which can be digitally operationalized and delivered direct to the patient. This individualized approach is based on principles previously used as the basis for mass-marketing campaigns, including smoking and other public health issues but not previously...