Using Health IT to Put the Person at the Center of Their Health and Care by 2020: Issue Brief.

摘要

Today, in many health care settings, an individual is often more of a recipient of health care services than an active partner with their health care providers and care team. This dynamic limits the opportunities for people to manage their own health and to share in care management. Changing the paradigm to a more person-centered vision is vital to improving health and health care outcomes, particularly since the individuals actions have a great impact on health outcomes. Important developments in health policy and practice emphasize the patient as key to improving outcomes and care: patient-centered care, the patient-centered medical home, health reform programs such as pioneer Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), and others. The emergence of health IT, including consumer eHealth tools, can enable achieving that vision. In the past year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has convened a diverse set of thought leaders across the country through a series of teleconferences and in-person workshops, resulting in a proposed vision statement based on a set of shared values. ONC and other organizations are already hard at work promoting certain aspects of the vision, such as shared decision-making between patients and their care team. Proposed Vision ONC is offering a proposed vision of how health IT can support a paradigm shift over the next few years to facilitate effective health management by individuals, their caregivers, and their health care teams