Patients are increasingly seen as passive participants in the healthcare system, often excluded from decision-making processes.
To enhance patient engagement, it’s essential to provide tools and services that encourage patients to ask more questions and collaborate with their healthcare professionals.
Training patients to ask appropriate questions and participate in treatment decisions is impractical.
A more practical solution is to create or expand the role of specialized nurses and “health coaches” into “patient advocates” whose goal is to help patients find precise diagnosis and best treatment options through fostering discussions with healthcare providers.
In a second phase of the project, patients should get the ability to store their personal data securely and access tools to develop, share and support questions with their doctors, leading to joint decisions.
Such process is likely to speed up patient health improvement, particularly for diagnosing those with rare diseases, and, more broadly, to promote true personalized medicine.
Additional benefits include increased patient motivation and reduced healthcare costs due to fewer misdiagnoses and elimination of unnecessary treatments.
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