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 ...

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," ...

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 ...

The terms “patient engagement,” “patient empowerment,” and “patient activation” get thrown around a lot in the world of digital health, often interchangeably. But Derek and Tracie Risling, co-founders ...

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 ...

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 ...

Participants were African American and White patients with prostate cancer who were treated with radical prostatectomy (n = 218). Patient portal activation was determined using electronic health ...

This new division responds to the fundamental truth in clinical research: finding patients isn’t the challenge—activating them is. “Patient recruitment, as we know it, is over,” said Sarah ...