The Patient Engagement Gap
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The Patient Engagement Gap
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Patient Engagement
Improving patient engagement with their care can significantly reduce costs and improve outcomes
Individuals that engage with their care plans achieve a higher level of health or recovery than those who do not
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This “Patient Engagement Gap” represents one of the world’s largest opportunities to achieve a higher level of care effectiveness. The New England Healthcare Institute recently published a major research piece that calculated this opportunity at over $290 billion of cost savings for the U.S. alone.
The Patient Engagement Gap
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The Patient Engagement Gap
The Engagement Gap$290 Billion
Base Level Outcome
PotentialOutcome
• Unengaged patients• Average adherence • Subjective feedback • Infrequent biometric data
• Fully engaged patients• Optimal adherence • Objective feedback • Frequent biometric data
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Putting it in Perspective
Ref: Centers for Disease Control and American Heart Association.
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US Health Care Trends
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133M (45%) with at least 1 chronic disease
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1: CIA World Fact Book2: Centers for Disease Control3: Department of Health & Human Services, Administration on Aging
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Patients forget to take their drugs
Patients fail to complete rehabilitation
Patients show up for surgery or other critical care procedures without proper preparation
Historically the health care system has been built around services rather than outcomes
Contributors to the Gap
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mHealth Solutions Can Help
Integrate with physician systems EMR integration connects mobile health
data to back end systems (EMR, PHR, etc.)
Web based interfaces and dashboards
Social media integration
Provide health analytics
Integrate into life of patient
Personalized care plans
Track behaviors via patient input or through remote sensors
Perform assessments, deliver education, set alerts and thresholds, establish goals and incentives & more
“Listen” to patient Personalize care
Monitor and respond to abnormal events
Send reminders
Deliver customized patient education
Mobile devices have become pervasive, and they allow patients to take their care plans with them. 72% of physicians use smart phones, tablets or other mobile devices. Over 5 billion
people now use mobile devices.
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Closing the Patient Engagement Gap can save more money than our global community spends on cardiac care and three times as much as we spend on cancer. This one trillion dollar (globally) upside represents the biggest opportunity for mHealth solutions to impact the cost and effectiveness of care.
The key is to quickly move beyond simple consumer grade “reminder” applications and deliver a product that entices the patient into changing their behavior.
Conclusions