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DIGITAL HEALTH ALIGNMENT & PATIENT EXPERIENCE CONSULTING

Are you wasting time and resources building health tech patients won't use?

We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

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DIGITAL HEALTH ALIGNMENT & PATIENT EXPERIENCE CONSULTING

Confused why patients aren't engaging with your health innovation?

We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

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DIGITAL HEALTH ALIGNMENT & PATIENT EXPERIENCE CONSULTING

Are your cohorts missing the patient journey insights they need to succeed?

We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

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DIGITAL HEALTH Alignment & Patient Experience (PX) Strategy Consulting

Are you wasting time and resources building health tech patients won't use?

Through our partnership, digital health teams and programs perfect their care continuum and patient experience alignment through custom strategic blueprints, audits, and trainings, empowering them to create solutions that truly resonate with patients’ needs— driving lasting trust, engagement, and impact for patients and your business success.

DIGITAL HEALTH Alignment & Patient Experience (PX) STRATEGY Consulting

Are you wasting time and resources building tech patients won't use?

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We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

DIGITAL HEALTH Alignment & Patient Experience (PX) STRATEGY Consulting

Confused why patients aren't engaging with your health innovation?

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We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

DIGITAL HEALTH Alignment & Patient Experience (PX) STRATEGY Consulting

Are your cohorts lacking the patient care insights they need to succeed?

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We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

If you think you need our help but don't know if these engagements are what you need, please reach out!

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Care Continuum & PX Alignment Blueprint

Early-Stage

You provide your product with the strategic grounding it needs, whether you’re starting out or adjusting course mid-build. This blueprint identifies nuanced care continuum and patient experience factors essential to your success, helping you avoid costly pivots, reduce feature waste, and boost your solution's value for patients and you.

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Innovation PX & Impact Audit

Build → Launch

You give your product the check-up or diagnostic evaluation it needs to determine and improve its "health". We pinpoint adoption barriers and opportunities for growth, and provide custom strategies to strengthen patient experience, boost engagement, and help you move forward with purpose and precision.

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PX Strategy Training & Mentorship

Accelerators, Incubators & Teams

You empower your innovators with the knowledge, skills, and strategic framework to lead in patient-centered design. Our training and mentorship helps accelerators, incubators, and digital health teams build repeatable PX strategy capabilities that strengthen solutions, sharpen competitiveness, and enhance market leadership.

Our Core Services

We deliver these outcomes through three core services—strategic blueprints, audits, and training—to help digital health professionals align early, deliver a stand-out patient experience (PX), and scale with confidence. And because real success means knowing how to replicate the process, we also train innovators how to integrate this approach into everything they build.

DIGITAL HEALTH Alignment & Patient Experience (PX) Consulting

Are you wasting time and resources building health tech patients won't use?

We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

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DIGITAL HEALTH Alignment & Patient Experience (PX) Consulting

Confused why patients aren't engaging with your health innovation?

We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

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DIGITAL HEALTH Alignment & Patient Experience (PX) Consulting

Are your cohorts lacking the patient care insights they need to succeed?

We empower digital health innovators with a nuanced 360° view of the patient experience: what it looks like, how it feels, and the forces that shape health journeys. With our dual patient-and-healthcare-professional lens, we help teams pinpoint where and how to step in to make the biggest impact, creating solutions that deeply resonate, build trust, and drive meaningful outcomes and lasting success.

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Alignment
Resonance
Trust
Engagement
Impact
Growth
Alignment
Resonance
Trust
Engagement
Impact
Growth

The Real Reason Digital Health Fails

What’s your plan to avoid joining the majority of digital health solutions that fail to gain traction, sustained engagement, and scalability?

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98%

Of Startups Fail

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<4%

Users Active By Day 30

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80%

Of Pilots Never Scale

Most digital health innovations miss the mark not because the technology is flawed, but because teams build without truly understanding the full scope of the patient experience (PX): the systems, policies, pain points, and daily realities that impact their care journeys, including what factors may motivate or prevent them from using health tech products.
 

Without that foundational alignment and resonance—​from both the real-life dynamics of our healthcare ecosystem and the patient journey through that ecosystem—even the strongest solution risks becoming another stalled pilot or forgotten app.

That's where we come in.

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How We Empower Your Success

We help digital health innovators align their solutions with care continuum dynamics and the nuances of the patient experience, pinpointing where they can step in to make the biggest impact for patients and their business sustainability. That alignment results in solutions that truly resonate with patients, driving the trust, engagement, and retention every solution needs to succeed, stand out, and scale.

Meet Meredith Mangold, CPXP

Hello!  I'm Meredith, Founder of Empower Health Strategies. 

I’ve spent the past 15 years navigating healthcare from both sides: as a Certified Patient Experience Professional in hospitals, primary care, advocacy, and digital health, and as someone living with multiple chronic conditions.

Along the way, I’ve witnessed patients—including myself—building spreadsheets, tracking systems, and other workarounds to manage their care because too many digital health tools miss what they actually need. That disconnect is why I started Empower Health Strategies: to help innovators bridge the gap.

By showing you the full picture of what patients encounter—whether it’s physical symptoms, emotional strain, financial barriers, or logistical hurdles—we help you build products that go beyond bright, shiny features to become genuine solutions patients rely on. When patients feel seen, supported, and empowered by your product, it becomes a trusted companion in their care—tangibly improving their care and quality of life and driving sustainable growth for your business.

 

Let's get started!

Your partner in transforming patient care,

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Along the way, I’ve witnessed patients—including myself—building spreadsheets, tracking systems, and other workarounds to manage their care because too many digital health tools miss what they actually need. That disconnect is why I started Empower Health Strategies: to help innovators bridge the gap.

By showing you the full picture of what patients encounter—whether it’s physical symptoms, emotional strain, financial barriers, or logistical hurdles—we help you build products that go beyond bright, shiny features to become genuine solutions patients rely on. When patients feel seen, supported, and empowered by your product, it becomes a trusted companion in their care—tangibly improving their care and quality of life and driving sustainable growth for your business.

 

Let's get started!

Your partner in transforming patient care,

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Meet Meredith Mangold, CPXP

Hello, I'm Meredith, Founder of Empower Health Strategies.

I’ve spent the past 15 years navigating healthcare from both sides: as a Certified Patient Experience Professional in hospitals, primary care, advocacy, and digital health, and as someone living with multiple chronic conditions.

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Alignment
Resonance
Trust
Engagement  
Retention
Growth  

Digital Health Startups

Growth & Enterprise Digital Health Companies

Pharma & BioTech Companies

UX, Design & Consulting Companies

Innovation Centers, Accelerators & Incubators

Medical Education Institutions

Health Plans & Payers

Hospitals, Health Systems & Clinical Teams

Public Health & Advocacy Orgs

Wondering if we partner with professionals like you if you're not on this list? Contact us! 

Who We Work With

We work with healthcare and health tech companies and any professionals that value improving patient experiences, which often include:

Who We Work With

We work with healthcare and health tech companies and any professionals that value improving patient experiences, which often include:

Digital Health Startups

Growth & Enterprise Digital Health Companies

Pharma & BioTech Companies

UX, Design & Consulting Companies

Innovation Centers, Accelerators & Incubators

Medical Education Institutions

Health Plans & Payers

Hospitals, Health Systems & Clinical Teams

Public Health & Advocacy Orgs

Wondering if we partner with professionals like you if you're not on this list? Contact us! 

Who We Work With

We work with healthcare and health tech companies and any professionals that value improving patient experiences, which often include:

Digital Health Startups

Growth & Enterprise Digital Health

Pharma & BioTech Companies

UX, Design & Consulting Companies

Innovation Centers, Accelerators & Incubators

Medical Education Institutions

Health Plans & Payers

Hospitals, Health Systems & Clinical Teams

Public Health & Advocacy Orgs

Wondering if we partner with professionals like you if you're not on this list?

 

Contact us! 

Our Core Services

We deliver these outcomes through three core services that meet you wherever you are in the innovation process—strategic blueprints, audits, and training—to help digital health professionals align early, deliver a stand-out patient experience (PX), and scale with confidence. And because real success means knowing how to replicate the process, we also train innovators how to integrate this approach into everything they build.

If you know you need our help but don't know if these engagements are what you need, please reach out!

If you think you need our help but don't know if these engagements are what you need, please reach out!

Our Core Services

We deliver these outcomes through three core services—strategic blueprints, audits, and training—to help digital health professionals align early, deliver a stand-out patient experience (PX), and scale with confidence. And because real success means knowing how to replicate the process, we also train innovators how to integrate this approach into everything they build.

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Care Continuum & PX Alignment Blueprint

Early-Stage

You provide your product with the strategic grounding it needs, whether you’re starting out or adjusting course mid-build. This blueprint identifies nuanced care continuum and patient experience factors essential to your success, helping you avoid costly pivots, reduce feature waste, and boost your solution's value for patients and you.

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Innovation PX & Impact Audit

Build → Launch

You give your product the check-up or diagnostic evaluation it needs to determine and improve its "health". We pinpoint adoption barriers and opportunities for growth, and provide custom strategies to strengthen patient experience, boost engagement, and help you move forward with purpose and precision.

grad cap circle plum background.png

PX Strategy Training & Mentorship

Accelerators, Incubators & Teams

You empower your innovators with the knowledge, skills, and strategic framework to lead in patient-centered design. Our training and mentorship helps accelerators, incubators, and digital health teams build repeatable PX strategy capabilities that strengthen solutions, sharpen competitiveness, and enhance market leadership.

The Impact of Patient Experience (PX) Alignment & Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD)

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50-100x

Savings by identifying adoption barriers and misalignments pre-launch

IBM

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32%

Higher revenue when co-design is prioritized and integrated into roadmaps

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25-40%

Faster time to launch with end user co-design and validated personas

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306%

Higher lifetime value (LTV) from users who feel emotionally connected

The Power of Our Partnership in Our Clients' Words

Roula Sharqawe | CEO & Founder, Connectome 

Meredith brings a rare combination of deep expertise, patient-first thinking, and unwavering dedication. She has a unique ability to ensure that every decision we make is grounded in the real needs of patients, constantly challenging us to refine our approach with empathy and clarity. Her deep understanding and genuine care for patients and their journeys make her an essential voice in our work, ensuring we remain truly patient-centered in everything we do. Beyond her sharp ideas, what sets Meredith apart is her passion and work ethic. She always goes the extra mile, whether it’s connecting us with patient advocates and business leads in the chronic illness community, sharing thoughtful product feedback, or providing nuanced guidance on language and messaging. Her insights have shaped key aspects of our approach, from structuring calls with patients to helping design and execute our Patient Pilot Program. Meredith doesn’t just advise – she actively invests in making our work better at every level. We’re incredibly grateful to have her as part of our journey.

Roula Sharqawe | CEO & Founder, Connectome 

Meredith brings a rare combination of deep expertise, patient-first thinking, and unwavering dedication. She has a unique ability to ensure that every decision we make is grounded in the real needs of patients, constantly challenging us to refine our approach with empathy and clarity. Her deep understanding and genuine care for patients and their journeys make her an essential voice in our work, ensuring we remain truly patient-centered in everything we do. Beyond her sharp ideas, what sets Meredith apart is her passion and work ethic. She always goes the extra mile, whether it’s connecting us with patient advocates and business leads in the chronic illness community, sharing thoughtful product feedback, or providing nuanced guidance on language and messaging. Her insights have shaped key aspects of our approach, from structuring calls with patients to helping design and execute our Patient Pilot Program. Meredith doesn’t just advise – she actively invests in making our work better at every level. We’re incredibly grateful to have her as part of our journey.

Request a Consultation

You're just steps away from shaping a standout, patient-first solution. Let’s connect and identify the roadblocks and missed opportunities holding you and your product back.

Request a Consultation

You're just steps away from shaping a standout, patient-first solution. Let’s connect and identify the roadblocks and missed opportunities holding you and your product back.

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