Question

What do you see as the conflicts between customizing patient care to the needs of an individual patient and standardizing care based on research?

Answer 1

Standardizing care Vs Individual patient care

• The word "standardization" to a group of health care professionals, and may start debate.
• while administration view standardized care as a way to achieve efficiency and high quality patient care, physicians have historically viewed
• This fragmented perception of standardized care is changing as value based care takes root
• Administrative and physicians are beginning to realize they need to work together to improve care quality and reduce costs.

The case for standardized care:

• Consistent outcomes
• Labor savings
• reduce waste
• Improved efficiency
• Improved patient safety
• Reduced health care expenses

The case for individual patient care

• Advocates of personalization don’t want to see standardized, one size fits all the way to treating patient become the norm
• Patients embrace the idyllic concept of local family doctor who knows everyone in their family, understands each family member health concerns and response individually.
• Individual care improves the patient experience and increase patient engagement.
• physicians need to personalize and motivate the patients to participate their own healthy life style  

Standardized care and Personalization working together improve quality:

• Standardized care and personalization are not mutually exclusive.
• in fact, standardization can enhance personalization by eliminating unnecessary work of physicians and giving more time to spend with patients
• it can also eliminate unnecessary expenses and complications resulting from not adhering to best practice
• Physicians make treatment decision based on their individual unique clinical experiences.
• standardization compensates for variation in experience and reveals the outcomes specific treatments have delivered to thousand or millions of patients
• Patient would rather hear from their physicians, "I ve treated 100 peoples with same condition, and these were the outcomes.

Birding the standardization personalization gap with data

With data as the common denominator health care can get to place where standardized care and personalization meet the best of the both words

Standardizing care measuring out comes enable physicians to create customized treatment plans for patients that take a variety of factors into account such as outcomes to similar patients

SEEKING A SYSTEMATIC METHOD TO MEET QUALITY TARGETS

Like all health care providers in industry moving toward value based care mission need to improve quality, reduce harm, mange complexity, eliminate waste, and operates more efficiently. Among the organizations priorities were improving quality of care safety infection precaution, health education system.