Meetings, conferences, strategies, articles and talk in healthcare are obsessively centered around the idea of patient engagement. Engagement is the new “buzz.” There are a couple of pivotal reasons. First, as provider organizations take on increasing risk, often in concert with health plans, in ACOs or in alternative payment strategies built around value, connecting with […]
*Physician Perspective
A Physician Perspective on Health Coach Training Over the span of two months this past winter I took the Clinical Health Coach® training. I took it because the ICCC’s Executive Director promised me it would improve my communication with my difficult patients, and possibly, even with my husband. What I took away from it was […]
*Health Coaching Support
Why Coaching? Coaching improves health outcomes. “Integrative Health Coaching for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes,” Wolever et al, Diabetes Educator, Volume 36, No. 4, July/August 2010. Coaching improves physical & mental health status. “Effect of Motivational Interviewing-Based Health Coaching on Employees’ Physical and Mental Health Status,” Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Butterworth et al, Oregon […]
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