Lessons Learned from Patient Engagement Efforts in Louisiana

We recently sat down to talk with Jamie Martin and Linda Morgan from the Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum (LHCQF) about their efforts to promote patient engagement in Louisiana. They’ve taken a unique approach to encouraging the use of health IT and getting patients engaged in their healthcare and so we wanted to share their lessons and experience with the rest of the world.

In our conversation we talk about what is patient engagement, the importance of having providers ready for patients that want to engage, different approaches to promoting patient engagement statewide, the proliferation of portals and the challenge that provides, and the value of incorporating patients into all of your efforts through a patient advisory board. If these topics interest you, then you’ll enjoy this chat with Jamie Martin and Linda Morgan.

Unfortunately, we had a little tech issue half way through our chat, so you only get the first 30 minutes above, but there’s plenty of meat in that 30 minutes. Luckily that was the majority of the chat, but I’m sure we’ll have Linda and Jamie back again to talk to us about their ongoing efforts and other things like the risque ad option they considered using but didn’t. Of course, their bosses might be glad that part got cut off. Either way, it’s great seeing people so passionate about improving healthcare in their state.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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