Rethinking health systems - Integrated care and empowerment of primary care for people with diabetes
How can healthcare systems consider different patient profiles and perspectives when designing care?
Rethinking health systems - Integrated care and empowerment of primary care for people with diabetes
Making the transition from existing models of care poses challenges for health systems, healthcare providers and patients alike. For diabetes care, the degree of difficulty in successfully managing this chronic disease varies from one patient to another. Facilitating integrated care pathways becomes an essential tool in delivering effective healthcare to diabetes patients. But how can healthcare systems consider different patient profiles and perspectives when designing care? What tools and technologies are needed to enhance the communication between providers on one side and between providers and patients on the other side? How can we align care coordination efforts among healthcare providers? In order to explore these questions and build consensus on possible policy solutions, EFPIA, in collaboration with Primary Care Diabetes Europe (PCDE), convened a multi-stakeholder roundtable to share different stakeholder perspectives on the barriers and opportunities of integrated care empowerment of primary care for people with diabetes. These insights provided the backdrop to a roundtable discussion that engaged all participants to address three core questions:
1. What are the barriers and opportunities presented by an increased focus on integrated care and primary care management of diabetes?
2. How to align and improve care coordination efforts among providers, and enhance communication between providers and patients?
3. How is daily practice supported and empowered by health authorities to identify the right incentives to improve primary care?
1. What are the barriers and opportunities presented by an increased focus on integrated care and primary care management of diabetes?
2. How to align and improve care coordination efforts among providers, and enhance communication between providers and patients?
3. How is daily practice supported and empowered by health authorities to identify the right incentives to improve primary care?