{"id":102,"date":"2014-07-15T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.peopletruecare.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2025-03-25T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:34:10","slug":"an-engaged-patient-is-a-healthy-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/true.care\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"An Engaged Patient is a Healthy Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a survey from the Center for Advancing Health it was revealed that patients with chronic conditions are not nearly proactive enough about their health.\u00a0 Surveyed doctors state that patients don\u2019t take the time to become more informed about their conditions and are often misinformed or lack critical knowledge.\u00a0 Health-care providers want patients to take a more active role in their own care because it leads to lower costs and better outcomes.<\/p>\n<h3>Tips to help become a more proactive and engaged patient:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring a list of questions to doctor\u2019s appointments.<\/li>\n<li>Ask if the medicines you are being prescribed will interact poorly with other medicines you\u00a0are\u00a0taking<\/li>\n<li>Ask if the medicines you are taking will interact poorly with other health problems you may\u00a0be\u00a0having<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a personal medical record<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a survey from the Center for Advancing Health it was revealed that patients with chronic conditions are not nearly proactive enough about their health.\u00a0 Surveyed doctors state that patients don\u2019t take the time to become more informed about their conditions and are often misinformed or lack critical knowledge.\u00a0 Health-care providers want patients to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truecare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/true.care\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}