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How to improve patient engagement

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Much is being made of the meaningful use requirement to use secure online messaging to communicate with patients about relevant health information. The new Stage 2 measure requires that more than 5% of unique patients seen by the eligible professional during the reporting period were sent a secure message using the electronic messaging function of certified EHR technology.


But to meet that goal, we have to get our patient population engaged and using our patient portal. Worries about that very thing abound in medical practices of all specialties across all communities.


Like so much in life, we think about the “other guy” in an adversarial role — what we can control and how we can influence others. We complain about patients who just won’t do what we tell them. We get annoyed when patients won’t take the medicines we prescribe for them. We get frustrated when patients don’t show up for follow-up appointments or don’t follow through on ancillary tests we’ve scheduled for them.


But those attitudes, as natural as they might be, don’t help us get to where we need to be. We need to figure out how providers and staff at medical practice can engage our patients. How can we help them?


Read more at: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/11/improve-patient-engagement.html


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