The document discusses the importance of personalizing healthcare by empowering patients, primarily through improved data access and self-management tools like a diabetes dashboard. It emphasizes shifting focus from merely managing diseases to supporting individuals in achieving their personal health goals. The ultimate goal is to transform healthcare by prioritizing the needs and aspirations of people rather than treating them solely as patients.

1. Personalizing Care
E-powering People
Paul Tang, MD
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Supported by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, AHRQ grant #1R18HS017179-01

2. Agenda
 The problem to solve
 The patient’s perspective
 Empowering people

3. Empowering Patients
What’s the problem to solve?
Clay Christensen, Innovator’s Prescription

4. ProjectHealthDesign: Living Profiles, Christy Sandborg, MD

5. Missed
opportunity:
teachable
moment. A
chance to
cure.

6. Personalized
health goal

7. Health
goal

8. Evidence-Based Care

9. Person-Centered Care

10. EMPOWER-D: Diabetes Dashboard
Feedback and Active Learning for People

11. Job Description of a Glucometer

12. Untethering Glucometer
Unleashing Patient Control
Acquire
Reading
Patient
Analyzes Data
Change
Behavior
RN/MD
Feedback
Wireless upload
Patient /
Clinician
Partnership

13. EMPOWER-D Results

14. Patients Improved

15. Summary
Personalizing Health Care
 Focus on jobs of people, not patients
 Provide data, knowledge, and tools to
achieve life goals, not management of
disease
 Transforming healthcare does not
empower people; Empowering people
transforms healthcare