Abstract
Digitally empowered patients
Some have said that the patient is the largest and most underutilized resource in healthcare.
Chronic disease management programs aim to improve healthcare outcomes, reduce healthcare expenditure while improving quality of life by patient centric care. Smart algorithms can identify the persons at risk for one or more chronic conditions, followed by a systematic care plan that promotes self-management by patients and address the illnesses or conditions with optimized clinical outcome.
Unfortunately, not every patient benefits from these programs. The variation is huge, although on average patients benefit from these programs, for some patients it seems to have very little impact. A patients’ capability to self-manage, the level of activation and engagement are important pre-requisites for a patient to benefit from a program.
How can a patient be optimally engaged to yield the most benefit from a care program?
Delivering personalized digital tools for activating a patient will enable the patient and care team to jointly achieve the care program objectives. In this talk we discuss the establishment of Health Behavior Profiles as an important step for personalized and continuously tailored patient activation. Health Behavior Profiles are individualized data structures that can be used to indicate non-adherence risk and barriers to self-management. Health Behaviour Profiles can also be used to personalize care pathways in such a way that barriers are avoided and risk reduced.
