Marybeth Gilliam, Founder of Outperform Cancer, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“You may have 15 minutes with your oncologist to make a decision that could shape the rest of your life. How do you make those 15 minutes count? Manta Cares can help.
You may be scared. Overwhelmed. Still trying to understand your diagnosis. A family member may be sitting beside you, desperately taking notes and trying to remember everything. And in that brief window, you may need to understand:
- What are my treatment options?
- What are the tradeoffs?
- Are there tests I should ask about?
- Is there another decision coming that I need to prepare for?
- What matters most to me?
This is one of the enormous gaps in cancer care that Samira Daswani, founder and CEO of Manta Cares, is trying to solve. Because most of the work of being a cancer patient happens outside the oncology appointment.
Patients and care partners research. Track symptoms. Manage side effects. Think through priorities. Worry about what they may have forgotten to ask.
Then they walk into a high-stakes appointment and try to make the most of a few precious minutes.
Samira believes the activated patient is one of the most underutilized resources in our health care system. I agree. Patients and families should not have to become medical experts. But with the right tools, they can walk into appointments better prepared to:
- Ask better questions
- Communicate what matters to them
- Understand the decisions in front of them
- Participate more fully in their care
That is what Manta Cares is designed to help them do — with live virtual support, an online navigation tool, and their specialized AI agent, Hope AI.
This one-minute clip gets to the heart of a much bigger conversation I had with Samira about the Activated Patient Advantage – and why helping patients participate more fully in their care may be one of the greatest opportunities to improve the cancer experience.
Listen to the full conversation on your favorite podcast platform today.
Apple: The Activated Patient Advantage: How Speaking Up Can Improve Cancer Outcomes | Samira Daswani.
Spotify.”
Other articles featuring Marybeth Gilliam on Oncodaily.