HealthLeaders Media August 2, 2021
“What has been missing is the patient’s perspective,” says one industry consultant.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Patient-centeredness is the logical next step in the era of precision and personalized medicine.
– Payers and providers are leading the charge through integration dynamics.
– These pathways are another critical step in the transition from volume to value.
The future of clinical pathways is patient-centric: an approach that balances the long-standing focus on cost-effectiveness with personalized medicine choices, defined by patients and providers, to deliver results across the value chain. “What has been missing is the patient’s perspective,” says Winston Wong, PharmD. Wong—whose career has arced from health plan pharmaceutical executive to industry consultant and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Pathways (JCP)—states that...