About Us

Advancing the role and prevalence of patient and family engagement in healthcare

The Institute for Interactive Patient Care (IIPC) is a healthcare organization dedicated to empowering patients and improving health outcomes through direct patient engagement. Our mission is to foster widespread adoption of patient and family/caregiver engagement strategies, which are proven to optimize patient care outcomes.

The vision of IIPC and our national board of advisors is to create a forum through which healthcare leaders worldwide learn about and adopt best practices in patient engagement as a principle means of improving healthcare outcomes.  To achieve our mission, IIPC engages in high quality research and advocates for advances in policy, standards and payment reform, all consistent with the mission of IIPC.

IIPC is governed by an independent National Advisory Board comprised of prominent leaders in healthcare.  Among its primary responsibilities, advisory members help oversee and validate research projects, as well as to guide the use and dissemination of information and findings from the research in order to promote establishment  of patient engagement standards for all care providers.

IIPC fills a unique role in healthcare by serving as a reliable source of information and evidence-based data on the impact and efficacy of patient and family/caregiver engagement.

IIPC is a not for profit 501(3)(c) organization.

News

Institute for Interactive Patient Care Launched

GetWellNetwork and Healthcare Industry Leaders to Measure Impact of Patient Engagement on Patient Outcomes and Hospital Performance Washington, D.C. – May 20, 2009 – A group of prominent healthcare leaders, clinicians, researchers and policy makers today announced the launch of the Institute for Interactive Patient Care (IIPC).  The Institute has been formed to demonstrate and advocate [...] Read more…

Patient Care Institute to Include MUSC Voice

The next trend in improving health care and outcomes could depend on how well medical providers engage their patients to better understand their conditions and what is required of them. The new patient engagement initiative announced in May by the GetWellNetwork will include input by MUSC’s  executive medical director, Patrick Cawley, M.D., and other top health [...] Read more…