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Why patient engagement is even bigger than HIMSS (MedCity ENGAGE)

Everyone cares about – and struggles with – patient engagement. At HIMSS this week, a […]

Everyone cares about – and struggles with – patient engagement. At HIMSS this week, a new survey showed  72 percent of health IT leaders think consumer and patient considerations are the most important business issue affecting care delivery.

The trick is that while technology is vital to ensure patient engagement succeeds, the topic is bigger than that. How can healthcare communicate better? How do we tackle issues like culture, poverty and managing multiple medications better? What government policies need to change to encourage people to understand treating patients like customers really pays?

That’s why MedCityNews.com convenes MedCity ENGAGE on July 14-15 in Bethesda. We will tackle all the issues in patient engagement from all angles: bringing payers, providers, policymakers and the rest of healthcare leaders together to discuss these issues.

The early-bird rate is still available for this conference. So reserve your tickets now.

Already in the agenda for this year’s ENGAGE:

  • Three workshops in which select attendees with create a patient-engagement solution, present it to the entire audience, and the best solution will be coverage and examine for the rest of the year on MedCityNews.com.
  • Participation by leaders from Humana, UnitedHealth, Kaiser Permanente, PhRMA, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute and others
  • Discussions focused on understand transparency, building better apps, serving big employers and streamling patient communication practices

HIMSS is one of healthcare’s great megaconference. That survey is the latest reminder that patient engagement has risen to the top of the list for everyone who has a say in transforming healthcare.

But not even HIMSS can tackle this issue alone. We need to all come together, which is why I hope to see you at MedCity ENGAGE.

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