Let ’ s Think of Patient-Centered Care, Not Value-Based Care

This article explores some fundamental changes that could accompany this shift in terminology, revolutionizing how we handle data and patient interventions. Engagement For Life We know that maintaining health is an endeavor that takes years, even decades. A successful endeavor must survive the departure of clinicians who have built relationships with the patient, as well as the patient’s own geographic moves, changes of provider, and changes of insurance. Treatment recommendations should also be tailored to the psychology of each patient. Is there a message in this exhortation for people working with data and health IT? One major reform would move patient information out of the control of the providers and into the hands of the patients. This would ensure that data follows the patient wherever they go. If treatment plans, remote monitoring, and other interventions are included in patient data, they would stay with the patient as well. And this long overdue shift would eliminate the exploitation and marketing abuses of patient data that clinical institutions have engaged in. Proponents of universal coverage claim that it would make this continuity of treatment easier to achieve. The argument is made persuasively by T.R. Reid in The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. But I’m not sure that universal coverage is a sure-fire cure. My first quibble is that universal coverage is politically unachievable in the United States....
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