To receive good care, it helps if patients are actively engaged with their caregivers. But since medical care is complex and sometimes a cause for anxiety, it’s hard for patients to know what questions to ask and what they should expect when seeing a medical professional.
Last week, the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) unveiled a new portion of its website titled Resources for
Empowered Patients: Actions to Help You Manage Your Care. MHQP’s Consumer Health Council worked for two years to assemble the site, which provides tools, guidelines and information related to patient engagement.
MHQP says its new site was developed primarily to target patients who would most benefit from being more engaged in their care, “such as those with chronic and/or high cost conditions, and those with a new diagnosis who may be unfamiliar with navigating a new part of the healthcare system.”
Patients can also learn a wealth of information about their care – including information about the staffing on each unit of every hospital in Massachusetts – by visiting MHA’s
PatientCareLink website.