Posts tagged health system
Patient empowerment before receiving care is the key to lowering healthcare costs
Patient empowerment before receiving care is the key to lowering healthcare costs

The only way to solve the problem of healthcare costs is to educate, empower, activate, and engage patients. Providers and public health programs need to give patients the information they need about their own health and how to care for themselves, but patients must also be educated about the real costs of healthcare.

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Patient CareKeith Hovanpatient empowerment, healthcare, costs, social determinants of health, health system, innovation, technology, quality care
To strengthen our health system, we must start with primary care
To strengthen our health system, we must start with primary care

By Keith Hovan

Thriving primary care practices are foundational to our entire health system, so widespread reports of burnout among primary care physicians (PCPs) are cause for great concern. They are overburdened by the demands placed upon them, and as a result, many PCPs say they no longer find joy in what they do.

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Patient CareKeith Hovanprimary care, healthcare, physicians, quality care, burnout, mental health, EHR, health system, leadership, CEO, workplace culture