On Tuesday, January 20, the Partnership to Improve Patient Care held a webinar to discuss the importance of patient empowerment. As lawmakers in Washington seek to build a “patient-centered healthcare system,” real patients and health policy experts discussed what decisions are being made by policymakers, and how they could impact patients like you.
The participants in our webinar offered their expert perspectives on the work being done to not only better engage patients in their health care, but to empower and activate them. Among the highlights of the webinar:
The participants in our webinar offered their expert perspectives on the work being done to not only better engage patients in their health care, but to empower and activate them. Among the highlights of the webinar:
- Two individual patients discussed their personal encounters with the healthcare system, and provided advice for other patients on how to be a successful self-advocate: Ms. Laura Roix, an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patient, and Ms. Letitia Brown-James, an epilepsy patient.
- PIPC’s Executive Director, Sara van Geertruyden, discussed the components of a patient-centered health system, and the importance of empowered patients to drive policies that are responsive to their unique and individual health care needs
- PIPC Chairman Tony Coelho moderated the discussion, providing his perspectives based on decades of experience as an epilepsy patient, a Congressman, and a life-long patient-advocate.