WASHINGTON, DC — Motivational interviewing, a conversational style designed to "strengthen a person's motivation and commitment to change," is more than just a technique, according to Auguste Fortin ...

Dartmouth medical student Nsomma Alilonu and Professor Thomas Thesen test the interactive voice component on their AI Patient Actor app, which allows students to practice talking to a simulated ...

(HealthDay News) — Motivational interviewing can be a useful approach for reaching noncompliant patients, according to an article published Jan. 22 in Medical Economics. In this era of health reform ...

Patient empowerment interventions have demonstrated significant success in the treatment of several chronic conditions. Recently, 2 such interventions, collaborative care and motivational interviewing ...

MI is not limited to asking questions. A critical part of MI is also the way the provider responds to the patient, which requires "reflective listening" -- reflecting the patient's statements and ...

I appreciate Laura Landro's excellent "Informed Patient" column "Teaching Doctors How to Interview" (Personal Journal, Sept. 21). Let's be honest. When it comes to communication, doctors fall into one ...

When patients visit your practice for the first time, you really don't know much about them. You have no idea what motivates them, what they think about their smile, or their oral health goals. One ...

Please can you outline the recent pilot program that evaluated the integral participation of patients in the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for rheumatoid arthritis? The study, ...

The way the MintHealth platform is designed to function is through the Vidamint token. Through this, MintHealth sets out to tackle two fundamental problems in healthcare today. First is the lack of a ...

This article is written by Ann O’Neill, director of clinical operations at Regent Surgical Health. This article was originally printed in the Regent Surgical Health newsletter and has been republished ...