What is patient engagement in healthcare?

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Hi Sanjana! If you haven‘t read our article on patient engagement, I‘m sure you‘ll find a lot of answers there.
But in short, patient engagement is a set of practices and tools for helping patients become more educated about their conditions and more confident when managing them. Three main aspects of patient engagement include:

Education -- explaining the course of treatment using videos, schemes, and other digital materials.
Decision making -- using so-called decision aids that provide the overview of treatment options to help patients make an educated choice.
Support outside the doctor‘s office -- safe and convenient messaging, scheduling, and medication adherence reminders.

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Hello
Patient engagement in healthcare refers to the active involvement of patients in their healthcare journey, including access to information, shared decision-making, and health education.

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