Patient Centered IT

This is part 5 of the series on the Patient Centered Infrastructure. It documents knowledge management as a part of the Patient Centered Process: Profile(Data) Information Retrieval(Information) Knowledge Management(Knowledge) Education(Skills) Medical Services(Interaction) Summary for TLDRs; Patient knowledge is not only one collateral result from healthcare processes it is an important factor for most results and […]

Caring for patients is caring for information for patients. This is especially true as patients are able to care for themselves to a great extent using the right information. This is a call for a rather profound connection between healthcare and information science. Digital health drives initiatives to a great extent but there are many […]

In the preceding posts of this series we learned about the Patient Centered Infrastructure and all its constituents that ensure a seamless patient journey which always supports a precise picture of the individual health situation, collects all information about possible outcomes and helps to perform the necessary tasks in order to reach the personal health […]

In part one we learned about the requirements and the need to build a Patient Centered Infrastructure. In part two we learned about the Patient Centered Process. This article explains the need for profile information in the Patient Centered Process. Profile Information as explained in the previous article references all the necessary actions to collect […]

In part one we learned about the requirements and the need to build a Patient Centered Infrastructure. The central purpose of this infrastructure is to empower patients to participate in healthcare processes. This participation is based on the individual level of health literacy of each patient. Increasing health literacy and offering participation are the main […]

Healthcare delivery is in permanent crisis. Worldwide. At least the leading economies of the world are facing a problem that healthcare delivery based on state of the art medicine is not possible in a cost efficient way. At the same time the cost structure is not transparent to the patients or anyone and the main […]