We all feel it—today, people lead busy lives with many obligations. The ease of instantly connecting to a healthcare provider ...

Patient-centered care has been getting a lot of attention as the healthcare industry focuses on the Triple Aim of delivering better health outcomes, improving patient experience, and reducing the cost ...

When transitions of care break down, patients feel it through repeated histories, fragmented communication, and preventable returns to the hospital. For patients with chronic illness, movement between ...

Patient-centered medical homes are considered by many to be among the most promising approaches to delivering higher-quality, cost-effective primary care, especially for people with chronic health ...

Editor's Note: In a recent Health Affairs essay titled “What ‘Patient-Centered’ Should Mean: Confessions Of An Extremist,” Don Berwick surveyed the debate in the health policy community over how the ...

We describe the Veterans Health Administration's nationwide patient-centered medical home (PCMH) initiative and evaluate interim changes in PCMH-related patient care processes. Data from the VHA ...

Care, comfort, compassion, and consolation are as important as finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease (PD). For some healthcare professionals, the source of such values is patient-centered care 1 ...

Patient-centered care (as it is described by doctors) or person-centered care (the phrase-more frequently used in non-medical settings) is one of those concepts everyone supports--except when it comes ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Practice patient-centered care improves patients’ satisfaction rates and clinical ...

Technology can restore the doctor-patient relationship or entrench metrics that have strai ...

In August, Mountain States Healthcare Alliance, a 13-hospital integrated healthcare delivery system based in Johnson City, Tenn., received the 2012 National Quality Healthcare Award from the National ...