“The visionary Don Berwick came out May 19 with a brilliant new piece in a Health Affairs Web Exclusive, “What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist.” It should be required reading for anybody who cares about making the future health care delivery system better than the current one.
In the article, Berwick offers a profound defintion of what “patient-centered” really should mean, and all I could think about is one of the other most important health care definitional issues of our time: “Meaningful use” of health information technology (HIT). At last week’s first HIT Policy Committee hearing, HHS National Coordinator for HIT David Blumenthal called meaningful use “in some ways a revolutionary concept.” And it could be, particularly if those at HHS who define it do it keeping in mind Berwick’s definition.”
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Josh Seidman, Information Therapy (Ix) Blog, 21 May 2009
