Expanding incentives for coordinated, patient-centered care

Expanding the use of patient reports about patient-centered care

In an informative article on the assessment of patient care experiences, Zimlichman, Rozenblum, and Millenson describe the evolving use of surveys that elicit patient reports about medical care experiences in Israel, a trend that parallels developments in the U.S. This commentary summarizes some of experiences in the U.S. that might inform the development of more consistent and extensive strate...

Secure, obligated and coordinated collaboration in health care for the patient-centered medical home.

In the patient-centered medical home, PCMH, patient care is overseen by a primary care physician leading a team of health care providers, who collaborate to optimize treatment. To facilitate interactions in PCMH, secure collaboration will be needed to: control access to information; dictate who can do what when; and promote sharing and concurrent access. This contrasts approaches such as the Na...

Patient Centered Care Model

Patient - Centered Health Care

As the United States debates how to reorganize its health care system, policy makers must ask what patients really want and need from their primary care providers. There is often a disconnect between what patients say they want and what other providers or payers think patients want. Our research at the National Partnership for Women and Families suggests that a truly patient-centered health car...

Responsible Patient-centered Care