nejm catalyst insights council report — social networks to improve patient health

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Patient Engagement Survey: Social Networks to Improve …

5 hours ago  · Patient Engagement Survey: Social Networks to Improve Patient Health. Social networks — both face-to-face and virtual — have been shown to positively impact behaviors such as weight loss and smoking cessation. Is the health care industry ready to more widely leverage this mechanism for increasing healthy behaviors among patients? >> Go To The Portal


NEJM Catalyst Insights Council members overwhelmingly agree that social networks can impact chronic diseases and healthy behaviors, but time commitment and funding prevent their prevalence. Sandra Gittlen January 18, 2018

In our most recent NEJM Catalyst Insights Council Patient Engagement Survey, “Social Networks to Improve Patient Health,” 99% of respondents acknowledge that social networks are potentially useful in health care delivery, especially for chronic disease management (named by 85% of respondents) and promotion of healthy ...

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About the Insights Council

The NEJM Catalyst Insights Council is a qualified group of executives, clinical leaders, and clinicians at organizations worldwide who are directly involved in health care delivery. Together they bring a diverse perspective and set of experiences to the conversation about health care transformation.

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We value your opinion and feedback about what is going on in the world of health care delivery. We invite health care executives, clinical leaders and clinicians worldwide, directly involved in health care delivery, to apply to join the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council.

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Insights Council members – a qualified group of executives, clinical leaders, and clinicians directly involved in health care delivery – share firsthand their challenges and experiences in evolving care delivery to em power patients . They discuss how their organizations are: .

What are social determinants of health?

Many organizations have started to dig into patients’ social determinants of health such as health literacy and socioeconomic status to understand what might prevent them from showing up for follow-up visits, understanding how to manage their disease, or adhering to care plans.