Towards a Patient-Centered Collaborative Health Care System 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...

A Patient-centered Health System

Patient Centered Care Model

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 ...

CARE Vital Signs supports patient-centered, collaborative care.

CARE Vital Signs refers to a standard form created by practices to Check what matters to patients, Act on that assessment, Reinforce the actions, and systematically Engineer or incorporate actions into staff roles and clinical processes. On its face, CARE Vital Signs is a deceptively simple tool that, when properly used, can help a practice attain levels of efficiency and quality. This article ...