A clear explanation of how technology (mobile connectivity & sensors) will allow us to push healthcare from (supposedly) centering around the patient to emanating from the patient. Creating an empowered population and a more responsive healthcare system.

The Digital Health Corner

The NIH defines patient-centered care as follows: “health care that establishes a partnership among practitioners, patients, and their families (when appropriate) to ensure that decisions respect patients’ wants, needs and preferences and solicit patients’ input on the education and support they need to make decisions and participate in their own care.” The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a set of guidelines established to reestablish the primary care physician as the predominant point of care, thereby promoting continuity of care. EHRs with connectivity would surely help that, but this is a barrier currently. If one looks at the Am Assoc of Family Physicians’ checklist for what is good practice for PCMH (see http://www.aafp.org/online/etc/medialib/aafp_org/documents/membership/pcmh/checklist.Par.0001.File.tmp/PCMHChecklist.pdf),I submit that PCMH is really is about the physician and the practice more than the patient. Certainly the goals are noble, but if the end result is that the patient still has only 15 or 20 minutes for…

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