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Patient Engagement

Patient Engagement, Consumerism and Health Plan Design

Editor’s note: We offer this Encore Presentation about the unintended effects of health plan design as the 2019 Open Enrollment period — November 1 to December 15 — for plans under the Affordable Care Act approaches. Medicare offers open enrollment from October 15 to December 7. Attempts to control healthcare costs, to link cost to value, […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

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Patient Engagement

Patient Engagement, Consumerism and Health Plan Design

Attempts to control healthcare costs, to link cost to value, and to expand access to insurance have all led to important changes for patients engaged in the healthcare marketplace. Those changes, which encourage patients to be “consumers” as they navigate options for care, support the impression that patients are engaged and empowered to make their […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

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Patient Advocates

Engage Patients as Consumers, the Airbnb Way

When it comes to engaging patients, healthcare should take a cue from consumer-facing industries. Why? Patients are consumers. We’ve begun to see a major shift in the healthcare landscape. In the age of Google, patient communities and advocacy organizations, patients are increasingly empowered to take charge of their own health and be the CEO of their […]

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Lilly Stairs Since being diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis and Crohn’s disease in 2011, Lilly Stairs has dedicated her life to patient advocacy. Lilly currently works as the head of patient advocacy at Clara Health where she is responsible for conceiving and executing patient engagement strategy and ensuring the patient voice remains firmly at the center of the company. She is a board member for the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association and also works closely with notable healthcare and biotech companies to ensure their initiatives remain patient-centric.

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