Patient engagement is crucial for improving healthcare outcomes, but it comes with several challenges:
- Recruitment and representation
- Communication barriers
- Resource constraints
- Lack of clear guidelines
- Sustaining engagement
- Provider/patient power dynamics
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Patient engagement and self-management are critical to the success of population health management strategies. The rise of telehealth, smartphones, internet access, and patient portals has provided valuable tools for empowering patients and improving health outcomes.
Impact and Result
- Addressing digital literacy and building trust in digital health are crucial steps toward ensuring that the benefits of digital innovation are equitably distributed.
- Implement Info-Tech’s digital health access methodology, which includes five pillars of digital health access and addresses the gaps in digital and telehealth equity through strategy.
- Info-Tech’s Telehealth Readiness & Patient Self-Management Assessment Tool provides guidance to help ensure that digital health technologies are accessible, understandable, and used and can pave the way for a more inclusive digital health ecosystem within the communities that your organization serves.