Janine Budding, Medical journalist

Janine Budding is the World News Online Editor for MedicalFacts and has been writing about the health care since 2001, having previously worked as a health care manager and pharma representative, while contributing articles to MedicalFacts.nl. She specialises in the business developments of the pharmaceutical industry -patient advocacy - and has a particular interest in healthcare in co-creation with the patient.

Janine Budding and patient advocay

I, Janine Budding, am an patient advocate.  As medical professional I was looking to us my influence in a different way, to the benefit of patients. Buy writing of deal with many aspects to patient advocacy, the range of backgrounds and interests of patient advocates is broad. Did you know that "Patient advocacy" is considered an up-and-coming career?  Entrepreneur Magazine and US News & World Report have both identified advocacy as a career that is coming into its own.


I guess you could say I have always been a patient advocate. I like to make a difference, help people, pull together influence thrgh twitter and my blog, myriads of activities, and help patients, friends, and colleagues achieve on health issues. Healthcare is so complex these days that nurses at the bedside can't do it all. Although nurses remain advocates, the complexity of healthcare today requires additional advocacy support. This is why patient advocacy as a discipline is so critical today.
 
Through MedicalFacts.nl I provide national healthcare platform for advance care planning and healthcare ethics through writing, speaking engagements, facilitation, and consultation for individuals or organizations to enhance their or others' self-determination. Helping people understand their need for an advance care plan and advocating for them and their families in its development is my personal core focus.

Janine Budding, Medicalfacts

Janine Budding

Janine Budding is Managing Director of MedicalFacts and she is a Dutch medical journalist, consultant and publisher. Janine has been a active promotor and ambassador for health 2.0 ,eHealth patient empowerment and patient participation. Janine began to promote healthcare issues in the Netherlands since 2005.

Patient participation in health care leads to lower spending on health care due to fewer specialty care referrals. Health care in cocreation with the patient will lead to cheaper and better health care through better communication between health care workers and the patient, patient will receive fewer diagnostic tests and referrals, and yield lower expenses for diagnostic testing.

A contributing factor to lower costs is increased patient participation during the visit, which reduces patients’ anxiety and perceived need for further investigations and referrals. In a eviorment of more effective patient-physician communication, physician gets more knowledge about the patient and their hughe knowlegde on their disease.

Janine focuses on women health and ethical issue for patients

Janine is an active member for of the NVEH Dutch Association for eHealth, focusing on business modeling, raising eHealth awareness of HCPs, and Patient Self management and Health 2.0. since 2006.

Specialties Blogging, liveblogging, Social Media for Healthcare, healthcareblogger, online strategies for healthcare business, patient advocacy