Patients are often asked to contribute ideas individually. 🤔

Seldom are they asked to work in teams, lead projects, or make decisions.

A quarterly advisory board meeting doesn’t cut it!

When patients come together in empowered teams, magic happens. ✨

Bonds form, ideas flow, and previously impossible problems find creative solutions. This is where human ingenuity is at its highest.

No one person can outperform a great team. The same rings true for patients.

Here are 3 ways to empower patient teams:

1. Train patients in team skills like communication, collaboration, and leadership. Or find those in the team who already have these skills.

2. Give patient teams real ownership of projects, decisions, and outcomes. Make them accountable.

3. Provide the platform for patients to ideate and innovate together. Collaboration technology and professional facilitation are key, especially across time zones, geographies, and different styles of communication.

What kind of solutions can patient teams generate? Here are some examples:

• Identifying gaps in support for mental health or chronic conditions
• Translating scientific information into layperson language
• Designing educational materials that resonate with diverse patients
• Streamlining complex treatment regimens and therapies
• Fixing treatment persistence issues
• Enhancing access to care for underserved communities
• Improving adoption and usage of digital health technologies
• Designing and collecting PROMs

Empowered patient teams achieve the extraordinary.

#patientengagement

Who’s ready to champion this approach in their organizations? 🙌