Why Patient-Centered?

Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Why Radiology?

Before technologic advances in imaging, such as PET/ MRI and molecular imaging–guided oncologic treatment, changed the practice of radiology, before antibiotics and vaccines provided widespread pharmacologic means to treat and prevent disease, before antiseptic technique markedly reduced surgical death rates, our ability to minister to patients and their families was to listen, comfort, and sup...

Why Patient Centered Care Coordination Is Important in Developing Countries?

Why Patient Centered Care Coordination Is Important in Developing Countries? Contribution of the IMIA Health Informatics for Development Working Group C. Otero1,2, D. Luna2, A. Marcelo3, M. Househ4, H. Mandirola2, W. Curioso5, P. Pazos6, C. Villalba7 1 IMIA Health Informatics for Development Working Group Chair, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 Health Information Department, Hospi...

Patient-centered medical home: What, why and how?

Measuring the quality of patient-centered care: why patient-reported measures are critical to reliable assessment

PURPOSE The Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified patient-centeredness as crucial to quality health care. The IOM endorsed six patient-centeredness dimensions that stipulated that care must be: respectful to patients' values, preferences, and expressed needs; coordinated and integrated; provide information, communication, and education; ensure physical comfort; provide emotional support; and i...

Towards Patient-Centered Conflicts of Interest Policy

Financial conflicts of interest exist between industry and physicians, and these relationships have the power to influence physicians’ medical practice. Transparency about conflicts matters for ensuring adequate informed consent, controlling healthcare expenditure, and encouraging physicians’ reflection on professionalism. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Open ...