Patient engagement: Patient engagement is
involving patient and their family in their self care for making
decisions
Example:
- The patient with anxiety disorder can able to identify the
triggers and try to control them in initial stage
- Patient with various systemic disorders can be able to share
decisions in their treatment
- It will help the patient and family members to adhere to
treatment plans and medication regimens
Social media: In many ways social media helps
to manage health including promoting awareness, patient engagement,
and educate various groups
Examples:
- Social media will helped in having awareness about coronavirus,
and its prevention
- It helped the people suffering with depression and reduced the
feeling of loneliness
- It helps in posting and sharing the information related to
illness and get advice to overcome
Telemedicine: It is a health related services
where patents can communicate with their health professionals
through telecommunication technologies
Examples:
- Paralysis or bedridden patient cannot travel to a distance and
can have consultation on call and get the medicine
- Dur to pandemic, patients got a chance to avoid visiting
hospital and consult doctors over voice and video call
- In terms of rainy or bad weather or no one to take to
hospitals, patients get benefitted with telemedicine
Healthcare Apps or consumer informatics: These
are the applications help to manage their health
Examples:
- People who are fitness conscious can monitor and track their
health with health care apps
- People can purchase the medicines and medical equipments using
this app
- These apps will give us reminders regarding when to take
medicine, consultation, followup.
Barriers which limit full patient
engagement:
- Language barriers
- Cultural barriers
- Patients unwillingness
- Inability to make decisions from too many choices
- Lack of understanding
- Feeding with too much information in one go
- Inadequate training of care providers leads to negative
attitudes towards patient engagement