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Patient and Family Engagement

The Most Difficult Challenge: Engaging Patients and Families Following Medical Harm

The numbers are staggering, and the emotional fallout has yet to be even remotely addressed. As healthcare systems seek to devise proactive measures aimed at curtailing, and hopefully eliminating, preventable patient harm resulting from medical care, the fact remains — even in the safest of systems, things can, and often do, go wrong. The iconic […]

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Winifred N. Tobin Winifred N. Tobin (wtobin@mitss.org) joined MITSS in the spring of 2003. Since that time, she has been responsible for strategic communications surrounding all of the organization's activities. Her areas of specific interest include emotional support for anyone involved in an adverse event; patient safety and quality; patient engagement; health literacy; and, safer healthcare for diverse populations. She co-authored Engaging Minorities in Safer Healthcare in 2011. Winnie has served on numerous committees representing the patient’s voice, and, in particular, that of the patient who has suffered medical harm. Currently, she serves as on the Consumer Advisory Group to the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and is a member of MACRMI. She holds a BSBA degree in marketing from the Sawyer School of Management at Suffolk University.

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