• What’s patient activation? It’s about energizing patients and getting them to play an active role in their own healthcare. It’s an approach that goes a long way to reduce hospital visits and prevent health problems.
• Who are activated patients? Examples of activated patients: patients who are aware of health problems, follow through on healthcare plans and prescriptions and adjust their lifestyles based on their health conditions.
• Why bother? Studies show that highly activated patients get better care. They communicate with their healthcare providers more effectively. There’s a lower chance of their experiencing medical errors. Their care is better coordinated. And they are the most satisfied with their healthcare system.
• Why aren’t patients engaged? Modern healthcare is complex. Many patients don’t understand even basic healthcare information. And often, patients don’t understand their condition.

Many healthcare providers don’t educate their patients so they can make informed decisions about treatment and care. Even if providers try to inform patients, many get overwhelmed and fail to follow even simple instructions.

It’s possible to improve patient activation levels. But to do it, healthcare systems must provide patients with better support and communicate healthcare information more effectively. Medigy enables better patient activation. It provides tools and access to healthcare information that improves communication and outcomes and reduces healthcare costs.

Use Medigy to:

• Fill gaps in patient knowledge. The huge Medigy knowledgebase of medical information can answer patient questions and concerns.
• Provide easy-to-use checklists. Patients who take an active part in their healthcare can follow every step of their care plan and maintain healthy lifestyles. Patients with chronic illnesses can use checklists to follow their healthcare plan.
• Improve care coordination among healthcare providers. Coordination improves the patient experience and increases patients’ confidence in the healthcare system.
• Send alerts and notifications to healthcare providers. When drug contraindications or drug reactions occur, alerts improve communications between patients and caregivers.
• Measure and track patient improvements. This practice makes it easier to score patient activation status.
• Ensure patient data security and privacy. The Medigy platform and its connections are built to be available, secure and reliable.