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Cracking the Code on Patient Engagement during Recovery 🧠💡

5 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Tiger Buford describes a bio-psycho-social approach to patient recovery that maps behavioral archetypes to coaching styles. The core problem: getting people to actually follow their care plans. The solution matches each patient's personality type to a tailored coaching method, whether through an app or human coach, to improve adherence.

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But it fundamentally started with this premise of what is it going to take to get a human being to engage in their plan of care, right? And that's the code that we cracked. That is the most difficult problem to solve. So what we ended up doing is we fundamentally created archetypes and behavior profiles of a human being. Our program is a bio-psycho-social program. So we started looking at it. And that gave us an opportunity to understand how people like to be coached, cajoled, motivated, kicked, pushed, empathy shown. And whether it's the app or the human coach, the engagement is aligned to their behavior and their archetype.