Collaboration – The Future of Healthcare

Healthcare is a living, learning, interconnected system, and the future of healthcare innovation will come from collaboration. This starts by empowering individuals to manage their health and partner in their healthcare with health IT tools and resources. In this model, care providers gain access to more accurate and more complete data that helps them deliver better care with higher efficiency. Similarly, researchers gain access to information that can be used to understand and improve health. This new collaborative model is rapidly gaining adoption by visionary researchers and care providers.

Collaboration – The Future of Healthcare

Healthcare is a living, learning, interconnected system, and the future of healthcare innovation will come from collaboration. This starts by empowering individuals to manage their health and partner in their healthcare with health IT tools and resources. In this model, care providers gain access to more accurate and more complete data that helps them deliver better care with higher efficiency. Similarly, researchers gain access to information that can be used to understand and improve health. This new collaborative model is rapidly gaining adoption by visionary researchers and care providers.

Including Individuals and Families in Process Design

In a collaborative model, individuals and their families are partners in care and research with decision-making capability and responsibility.  Care Providers collaborate with patients and others to obtain more accurate and more complete data to be used in integrated assessments, education, monitoring, decision-support, and care planning. Researchers collaborate with patients and others to collect and analyze information to understand and improve health.

Collaboration Means Shared Responsibility and Control

In a collaborative model, individuals and their families control their own data and are aware of their condition and its treatment. Care Providers control data about their practice and use it to drive higher quality and to save time. Researchers control data about their studies and publish results to advance our collective understanding of health and healthcare services. The key difference from traditional models is that individuals and families are expected to have some way to manage their data and to share it with their multidisciplinary team. This is a more powerful model and overcomes many fundamental issues with data custodianship, sharing, and privacy.

Collaboration Means Shared Responsibility and Control

In a collaborative model, individuals and their families control their own data and are aware of their condition and its treatment. Care Providers control data about their practice and use it to drive higher quality and to save time. Researchers control data about their studies and publish results to advance our collective understanding of health and healthcare services. The key difference from traditional models is that individuals and families are expected to have some way to manage their data and to share it with their multidisciplinary team. This is a more powerful model and overcomes many fundamental issues with data custodianship, sharing, and privacy.