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Re-thinking Models of Patient Empowerment
1Digital Media, University of Hull, United Kingdom.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
|May 19, 2015
Summary
Patient empowerment in healthcare requires more than access; it needs patient ownership and collaborative practices. Current eHealth frameworks are inadequate, lacking holistic and innovative approaches for true patient empowerment.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Patient Engagement
- Healthcare Management
Background:
- Citizen empowerment in personal healthcare management is multifaceted.
- Current models often oversimplify empowerment, focusing on access rather than patient ownership or collaborative practice.
Purpose of the Study:
- To critically evaluate existing frameworks for patient empowerment within eHealth systems.
- To identify weaknesses in current structures that hinder holistic and technologically innovative patient-centered care.
Main Methods:
- Review of existing patient empowerment frameworks.
- Articulation of patient demands and needs.
- Analysis of framework limitations regarding holism and technological innovation.
Main Results:
- Existing patient empowerment frameworks are insufficiently presented and often inequitably focused.
- Current structures fail to adequately incorporate holism and technological innovation.
- Key constituents for an effective patient empowerment framework were determined.
Conclusions:
- A new model is proposed to deliver an empowered patient for the 21st-century healthcare system.
- The model addresses the identified weaknesses in current frameworks.
- It emphasizes holism, technological innovation, and patient-centered principles.
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