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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Let’s look back even further to 2013 to examine one definition of patient engagement: Health Affairs defines patient engagement as combining patient activation with interventions designed to increase and promote positive patient behavior, such as obtaining preventive care or exercising regularly, hopefully to lower costs.

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Teladoc Livongo merger: what went wrong with the 'one-stop shop for virtual care' strategy?

Lloyd Price

Primary services include telehealth, medical opinions, AI and analytics, telehealth devices and licensable platform services. The company's first product was a telehealth platform that allowed patients to connect with doctors via videoconferencing. In 2013, Teladoc went public on the NYSE.