AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Recent Events | Chats on Change: New Ways to Communicate With Patients

New AHRQ Innovations Exchange Chat on Change:
New Ways to Communicate with Patients
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
2 – 3 pm (ET)

How are roles different in innovative compared to traditional patient-provider communications? Do these innovative communication strategies improve care delivery and/or improve health status for vulnerable populations in particular? How does funding of innovative health communications influence their effectiveness?



Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc
Expert Panel Member, AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange

Join us on Tuesday, April 5th, from 2 to 3 pm ET for Chats on Change. Victor Montori, MD, MSc, Director for Social Media at Mayo Clinic, will be on hand to welcome audience input on patient-provider communication before, during, and after office visits. The Chat will also provide examples from the Innovations Exchange on enhancing communication with a range of patient populations through means such as phone-based care management, patient navigators, e-mail and texting, and personal health records.

This event will be a live Twitter chat that will offer the opportunity for rich exchange among participants on this important topic. To participate in this chat you will need to have a Twitter account and may be encouraged to supply personal identifying information (PII). This PII is not shared with HHS, AHRQ, the Health Care Innovations Exchange or Westat (AHRQ’s technical contractor). Use of Twitter does not constitute an endorsement of the platform by HHS, AHRQ, the Health Care Innovations Exchange, and Westat (AHRQ’s technical contractor). During the Chat, we ask that you stay on topic and refrain from commercial endorsements.

Here’s how to join!
AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Recent Events | Chats on Change: New Ways to Communicate With Patients


About our facilitator: Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc is a diabetologist and clinical epidemiologist. He is the lead investigator of the Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit and a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He serves as co-director of the Knowledge Translation Research Unit of the NIH-sponsored Mayo Center for Translational Research, and Director of the Healthcare Delivery Research Program, the Shared Decision Making National Resource Center, and the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. He has published a book titled Evidence-based Endocrinology and has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications. He was born in Peru, where he obtained his medical degree.