Cheryl Petruk, co-founder of CACHEducation, talks about the need to properly educate patient advocates on the fundamentals of patient advocacy.
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Hi, I am Cheryl Patrick from CACHEducation. In the recent past, healthcare has become or has been a one-way street. Medical professionals made the decisions and patients followed suit without much say in their journey. However, there’s been a shift towards patient-centered care, and that has given rise to the disruption culture of patient advocacy, promoting better, more personalized healthcare, and this disruption culture in patient advocacy stems from the need for change in the traditional hierarchy of healthcare. Empowering patients, their voice, their need to voice their concerns, and of course, patient rights.
However, that disruption still needs to be founded in the basic principles of healthcare. And how the various systems work inter-dependently as well as independently of one another.
At CACHEducation, we’ll help you learn some of those basic principles and take those tools that you’ll need to have in your personal toolbox to help you become a better or professional patient advocate. Communicating with stakeholders, being involved in clinical trials, communicating with policymakers. How do we find treatment options? How do they become developed? How do they become available and approved? How do they end up in the patient’s hands? These are part of our educational curriculum that CACHEducation will provide to our attendees. These are all some of the basic competencies that patient advocates need to know in becoming a better patient advocate.
To learn more about upcoming classes, visit cacheducation.org/.
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