Participatory Healthcare ─ A Person-Centered Approach to Healthcare Transformation

This book is written through the lens of patients, caregivers, healthcare representatives and families, highlighting new models of interaction between providers and patients and what people would like in their healthcae experience. It will envision a new kind of healthcare system that recommends on how/why providers must connect to patients and families using HIT, as well as suggestions about new kinds of HIT capabilities and how they would redesign systems of care if they could. The book will emphasize best practices, and case studies, drawing conclusions about new models of care from the stories and input of patients and their families reienforced with clinical research.

Jan Oldenburg, FHIMSS is a nationally recognized thought leader on consumer health information strategy and patient engagement. Through her work with Ernst & Young, she helps organizations create and implement strategies related to patient/provider engagement and activation with a focus on digital health technology. Prior to her current role within EY's Advisory Practice, she was the Vice President of Patient and Provider Engagement in Accountable Care Solutions at Aetna, where she helped build patient and provider engagement programs for Accountable Care Organizations. Before that, Ms. Oldenburg was a senior leader in Kaiser Permanente's digital strategy group and a principal in several consulting companies focusing on strategies for using the digital technologies effectively in healthcare. She is the primary editor of Engage! Transforming Healthcare through Digital Patient Engagement, published by HIMSS in March, 2013 and received the "Best Book" award at HIMSS14. Currently, she is the Vice-Chair of National HIMSS Connected Consumer Workgroup. She is also a member of the Consumer Empowerment Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee of ONC.