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Activating Patients: How a Cutting-Edge Assessment Tool Can Boost Patient Care

The ideal healthcare patient, according to some veins of cutting-edge research, looks a lot like this: engaged, in charge, knowledgeable, skillful and confident. And the positive outcomes of these attributes can be tremendous, from improved medication adherence and more office visits to fewer hospital readmissions and ER use.

Sounds great, right? There’s just one question: How do we get started?

Researchers from Insignia Health believe they have the answer. It’s called the Patient Activation Measure, a unique assessment tool that has been the focus of multiple clinical studies that have revealed its benefit as a baseline marker of a patient’s ability to self-manage as well as a predictor of quality outcomes.

More important, it has proven to be highly effective for the top users of healthcare services – those who consume 80 percent of services and associated costs – according to Chris Delaney, founder of Insignia Health, which offers PAM, a tool originally developed at the University of Oregon...... Read More »