Empowered, engaged, equipped and enabled: Enabling the power of e-patients

Speaker: 

e-Patient Dave (Dave deBronkart), Patient Engagement Advocate, Author

Learning Objectives:

• Communicate the World Bank’s definition of empowerment and the five levels of Arnsteins’ Ladder of Citizen Participation;
• Discuss the benefits for patients (and their caregivers) when they gain access to their own records and become engaged in their ongoing care; and
• Describe three ways case managers can “let patients help.”