Steve Wilkins

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Why Doctors Need To Listen To And Understand The Patient’s “Perspectives” – A True Story

Perhaps the most fundamental principle of “patient-centered care” is for clinicians to…

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Is “Convincing” People to Use Health Apps the Right Approach to Patient Engagement?

If patient-centered care is supposed to be about “respecting the patient’s perspective”…

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Patient Engagement and Health IT: Disillusionment Sets In, Poll Shows

This week, the 2015 HIMSS Patient Engagement Summit is taking place in…

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Listen to Your Patient and They Will Tell You the Problem: A True Story

Readers of Mind the Gap, I apologize for my absence in recent…

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Patient Reactance: What It Is and Why Clinicians Need to Be Aware of It

Can you say “reactance”?  Don’t feel bad, I wasn’t familiar with the…

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Patient Nonadherence: A Rational Reaction to Sub-Optimal Physician-Patient Communication

I have been working on a paper exploring the link between physician-patient…

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Patient-Centered Physicians Have Lower Diagnostic Testing Costs

For many physicians, the term “patient-centered” conjures up fears of longer office…

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The Secret to Patient Engagement: More Engaging Physicians and Health IT

I was the keynote speaker recently at a national Patient Engagement Symposium.…

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