patient-centered care
How We Live Our Lives
There is no deeper nor more challenging question that how we will live our lives. It confronts us at a collective as well as an intimate level. While we are waiting for the circumstances of our lives to match our expectations, life is waiting for us to release our expectations and realize the potential that…
Read MoreWhy is Patient Engagement Important in Improving Healthcare?
Effective patient engagement is essential in healthcare. It can improve the patient’s overall health. Here are some of the benefits it can provide: Improved patient satisfaction and care—Patients who have a voice in their treatment feel respected and heard. This leads them to be more activated with their treatment plan and medication adherence Improves patient’s…
Read MoreWhat is Patient Engagement
Patient engagement is when a person takes an active role in their own healthcare. This includes reading, researching symptoms, better understanding an illness (such as diabetes) and better understands different treatment options. Being an engaged patient means you are following your treatment and medication adherence plan and in communication with your healthcare providers. Patient engagement…
Read MoreHealtheGoals a Recipe for Your Heart
HealtheGoals is an Evidence-Based Patient Solution Designed to deliver personalized tools, guidance and information that patients can use to play a greater role in the management of their high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart failure. Simply prescribing medications and lifestyle changes and expecting a patient to comply with these instructions may not be enough. …
Read MoreYOUR FEEL-GREAT HEALTH CHECKLIST
Healthy relationships, including a strong network of family, friends, loved ones and colleagues A healthy, meaningful way to spend your days A healthy creative life, spiritual life as well as a healthy financial life that allows you to meet your essential needs A healthy mental and emotional life, characterized by optimism, gratitude and happiness A…
Read MoreYou Come First so Think Health for A Change!
There is just one life for each of us: Our Own (Euripides) I wish more people would take time to take good care of themselves When they neglect their own well-being, we are all drawn into it. Our goal should be to take such good care of ourselves that we can be happy, healthy and…
Read MoreTen Tips to help you Make a Health Behavior Change that Sticks
It is time to make health changes you can stick with, based on science. Focus on one behavior change goal at a time. Focus on one small or attainable change at a time. Once you have made the change into a habit (like taking your medication after breakfast every day) you can focus on your…
Read MoreStep Forward Into Growth—Rethink Your Health
“You will either step forward into growth or will step back into safety.” Abraham Maslow Think Health for A Change is a “call to action” for each of you. Integrating positive health choices into each day can do wonders to improve your health, your emotional well-being and your ultimate LONGEVITY. Rethinking your health is a reminder…
Read MoreHealtheGoals—Rethinking Your Health
Simply prescribing medication and lifestyle changes and expecting a person to comply with these instructions does not assure health improvement. Achieving improved patient health outcomes can require much more than gentle reminders to take a pill, get moving or stop smoking. To address these challenges, our Technology Provider Network created HealtheGoals an evidence-based, technology-enabled Adherence program that…
Read MoreBe Happy At Home
There’s No Place Like Home (Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz) Your lifetime is primarily enjoyed in your home. Where else can you be happier than in the privacy of the environment you created and enjoy? Your own home. I’ve never been in anyone else’s house that could possibly make me as content and fully…
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