Dr. Paul Tang, MD, discusses the empowerment and "e-powerment" of patients through new methods of healthcare personalization.

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