Patient engagement is an initiative that every hospital is thinking about and working on. Having patients play a more active role in their health care goes a long way to successfully preventing and managing chronic diseases. Engaged patients often equate to satisfied, compliant patients.
While in concept, patient engagement seems straightforward, in practice it requires nurses, doctors and allied health professionals to extensively build upon their communication and education skills. To provide truly patient-centered care clinicians must also adopt and perfect the art of shared decision-making with their patients.
DynaMed Decisions offers physicians, nurses and allied health professionals a wide variety of resources to help them improve their communication and patient education skills, driving higher patient satisfaction and engagement.