Advancing the role and prevalence of patient and family engagement in the healthcare 2.0 era
By Staff Reporters
The Institute for Interactive Patient Care (IIPC) is a healthcare organization dedicated to empowering patients and improving health outcomes through direct patient engagement. Their mission is to foster widespread adoption of patient and family/caregiver engagement strategies, which are proven to optimize patient care outcomes.
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Vision
The vision of IIPC and its’ national board of advisors is to create a forum through which healthcare leaders worldwide learn about and adopt best practices in patient engagement as a principle means of improving healthcare outcomes. To achieve its mission, the IIPC engages in high quality research and advocates for advances in policy, standards and payment reform, all consistent with the mission of IIPC. The IIPC is governed by an independent National Advisory Board comprised of prominent leaders in healthcare.
Responsibilities
Among its primary responsibilities, advisory members help oversee and validate research projects, as well as to guide the use and dissemination of information and findings from the research in order to promote establishment of patient engagement standards for all care providers. IIPC fills a unique role in healthcare by serving as a reliable source of information and evidence-based data on the impact and efficacy of patient and family/caregiver engagement.
Assessment
IIPC is a not for profit 501(3)(c) organization.
Link: http://www.instituteipc.org/research/
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Good post, but just remember that preventive care as a cost saving measure is a fallacy.
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/preventive-care-cost-saving-measure-fallacy.html
Is more patient education a better solution?
Al
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