Hill June 9, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of telehealth for primary care, and patient-centered care is now easier than ever. This has been the model promoted as early as 1967 by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The idea is that the patient and not the physician or the hospital is at the center of a wheel. Each health provider in the care team, including preventive, acute, and chronic care, is at the end of a spoke in the wheel. Each provider contributes to the care of the patient, but the patient is the ultimate decision-maker. Data shows that chronic medical conditions are managed better in this model.
Why isn’t patient-centered care just standard of care? One of the...