Description
Scenario
Imagine you are the CEO of a health care organization. You would like to implement a patient-centric health information management system (HIMS) within the organization. This system needs to take into consideration health care costs and safety. You need your executive team on board to ensure successful implementation of this patient-centric health care technology information system. You plan to present a detailed report to your management team about the patient-centric approach, its benefits and challenges, and why your organization needs to embrace this approach.
Instructions
You will write a 5–6 page research report in which you address the following:
- Taking into consideration patient safety and health care costs, explain why a patient-centric approach is important in today’s health care system along with the challenges involved in implementation. Provide specific examples to justify your reasoning.
- Analyze the benefits derived by health care organizations that practice a patient-centric approach, stating their unique characteristics. Provide at least two examples to support your ideas.
- Identify two examples of a patient-centric health care practice and propose three ways patient-centric technology could increase patient access to quality health care.
- Suggest three ways that HIMS can improve the patient experience within a health care organization or with a health care provider.
- Predict three ways you would use patient-centric health care practice principles to improve quality care measures within your organization.
- Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to find four recent (within the last five years) quality academic resources for this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
- Propose how patient-centric health care practices and technology and a HIMS can improve health care.

Explanation & Answer

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Running head: PATIENT-CENTRIC HEALTH CARE PRACTICES AND TECHNOLOGY
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Patient-Centric Health Care Practices and Technology
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Patient-Centric Health Care Practices and Technology
Introduction
A patient-centric approach has been the steering force within the health care industry
in recent years. Patients are increasingly becoming active participants in their wellbeing and
want to contribute to the process. Therefore, medical professionals need to consider and
recognize the most crucial and beneficial elements. Patient-centric health care practices
involve providing special medical services customized to cater to individual needs, values,
and patient preferences in addition to professional guidance and consultations of other health
experts. The current paradigm in health has gravitated away from the traditional model in
which doctors made medical treatments based only on tests and personal experience with a
patient. With the latest advancements in health care and technology, patients have obtained
improved access to tools and information that allow them to arrive at informed decisions
regarding treatment procedures that meet their health conditions or lifestyles. Simply put,
medical decisions' current choices depend on how responsive and acceptable patients might
be to particular medical treatments. The paper targets to propose how patient-centric
healthcare practices and technology can be effectively used to improve health care.
The importance of Patient-Centric Health Care
Various medical experts approve of the patient-centric approach as an extremely
qualitative model with highly encouraging or positive results from both the business and
medical side. From the business point of view, the patient-centric health care model has been
reported to engage experiences and positive outcomes resulting in the retention of most
patients and their health care progress (Bretthauer, 2016). The medical perspective of the
model draws its success from the effective response by patients to treatments. Further,
patient-centric health care shows fewer symptoms and has a lower possibility of readmission,
prolonged hospitalization, or replacement (Mbuthia, 2018). Various patient organizations
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reveal that patient-centric health care practices are generally insightful, particularly for those
who have embraced the approach over a long time (Mbuthia, 2018). While the model is about
having patients' needs at the core of all activities and ensuring that the activities focus on
improving the results, there are difficulties i...
