{"id":1991,"date":"2016-10-21T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2023-02-13T18:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:22:32","slug":"prs-role-in-patient-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/our-take\/firm-culture\/prs-role-in-patient-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"PR\u2019s Role in Patient Engagement | O&#8217;Dwyer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients and families often need guidance to make informed and confident decisions about their health and health care. Check out Sharon\u2019s article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odwyerpr.com\/story\/public\/7736\/2016-10-18\/prs-role-patient-engagement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s October<\/strong> <strong>issue<\/strong><\/a> to learn how communications professionals play a critical role in encouraging and influencing conversations and in promoting shared decision-making. Some of the key takeaways include:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odwyerpr.com\/story\/public\/7736\/2016-10-18\/prs-role-patient-engagement.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1994 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sharon-Reis-ODwyers-Article-October-2016-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"sharon-reis-odwyers-article-october-2016\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make it a priority for hospitals, health systems<\/li>\n<li>Provide more knowledge and tools<\/li>\n<li>Carve out a role for communications<\/li>\n<li>Create patient engagement initiatives<\/li>\n<li>Approach it together<\/li>\n<li>Watch your word choices<\/li>\n<li>Be inclusive<\/li>\n<li>Be clear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Access the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odwyerpr.com\/story\/public\/7736\/2016-10-18\/prs-role-patient-engagement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients and families often need guidance to make informed and confident decisions about their health and health care. Check out Sharon\u2019s article in O\u2019Dwyer\u2019s October issue to learn how communications professionals play a critical role in encouraging and influencing conversations and in promoting shared decision-making. Some of the key takeaways include: Make it a priority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[44,33,4,41],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}