Please Don’t Cut Off My Pants

Patient involvement, patient empowerment, patient activation, and patient centered care are among the many popular phrases increasingly uttered within the health industry.  Some authors, writers, speakers, and bloggers have focused on analyzing  if and when certain terms and/or terminology (consumer versus patient versus person) are more (or less) appropriate or applicable to a particular situation.
Yes, there are signs of positive change. Innovations in care delivery and design along with new approaches to payment reform (from volume to value-based) are gaining momentum. The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Patient Focused Drug Development (PFDD) Program and the FDA’s efforts to include patient perspectives in medical device development are admirable endeavors to increase patient involvement.  The Patient Centered Research Institute (PCORI) has focused its efforts on patient engagement and patient centered outcomes research. The Precision Medicine Initiative is moving forward to develop its 1 million plus cohort.
Yet, we have a long way to go before patient values and needs are inherently embedded in our increasingly complex processes and systems…in spite of innovations and the growing recognition of the importance of population and community health along with social determinants of health[1] and even though philanthropies and funders are encouraging more, and more appropriate and effective communications between providers and their patients.[2]  We know that d...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - January 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Choice Consumer Health Care Patients Source Type: blogs