Engaging Patients and Improving Outcomes through Self-Driven Healthcare

December 2, 2022

The UK agency Innovate UK established the idea of self-driven healthcare (SDH), a broad term covering strategies to help engage patients in their own healthcare. In a newly published paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, authors lay out a framework for SDH that would use digital health technologies like medical devices and apps to deliver healthcare information to patients and their providers.

According to Emily Henderson, “A personalized dashboard would automatically present the user with their ‘digital twin’ and the portal may also be enabled to routinely offered insights and actionable advice, including microlearning and behavior change interventions and a holistic picture of the person’s overall health and wellbeing status.”

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(Source: Medical Life Sciences News, December 1st, 2022)

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