--- title: Patient education – A important component of patient care journey description: To gain a positive outcome from your patient care's path, patient education plays an important role. 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In this brief write up, I am sharing some of the important aspects that one should consider while building a patient education solution. **Make it simple and more visual:** Most often a patient will understand a topic by recognizing visual elements. How intuitively one can design the experience for patients will make an education session interesting. **It should be interactive and a fun tool:** Patient education should happen in sessions making each session interactive towards the end. **Evidence based education:** While you are trying to build a repository of education material, it is important for patients if their education sessions are based on evidence. Present more data and allow peer patients to talk about their healing process. **Mobile access:** Patient should be able to access education sessions anytime, anywhere using mobile devices. Such tools provide flexibility and are definitely more engaging. While mobility is an important component of accessibility; my recommendation is to allow smaller sessions in “one go”. **Education to prevent:** Patient should interact easily with such solution to prevent them from problems. For example, if you are building a BOT who can talk with you to provide solutions or recommend possible causes of any symptom. **Engage to complete:** For a patient within a care setting, completing the sessions are simpler and often a part of protocol; while a patient who is not a part of care setting, the sessions should be supported with effective engaging experience bonded with alerts.    **Educate to participate:** While educating a patient is important, it is equally important to empower patients with informed decision making. Patients who participate more in the process often shows positive outcomes. Looking at the future I feel, patients who are more educated are more informed and have a better control on a specific disease. 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