Opinion and Special Articles: Self-management in epilepsy

What is the best way to engage patients with epilepsy? Patients and practitioners may have different answers to this question, but both would agree that having accurate information is of utmost importance. Benefits of electronic seizure diary systems include more efficient, time-stamped data entry and the ability to generate graphical summaries. Limitations include the need for some degree of digital sophistication on the part of the patient or caregiver, the cost of the underlying electronic platform, the requirement for ongoing patient/caregiver engagement, and the potential for privacy issues with data entry.1,2