Medical Xpress December 1, 2022
SAGE Publications

A vision for building sustainable, self-driven health care spanning primary care, secondary care and the wider health and social care system has been set out by medical innovators writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Self-driven health care (SDH) is an umbrella term introduced by Innovate UK, the UK’s national innovation agency, to conceptualize aspects of health care delivery that can support people in becoming more engaged in managing their own health and well-being, rather than being passive receivers of health care.

In their paper, the authors from Imperial College London and Innovate UK describe an SDH ecosystem that supports individuals to take more ownership of their health and well-being, and in recording their own data (e.g....

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