Healthcare trends are the current events that are happening in the healthcare sphere. These trends tend to shape various aspects of contemporary healthcare practice. In essence, most of the trends in healthcare are usually positive and happen to positively influence various changes in healthcare. One of the current trends in healthcare is personalization of care. According to Kocaballi et al., (2019), personalization of care is whereby patients are able to control the way their care is provided to them, as well as the way the care is delivered. Basically, this concept surrounds what matters to the patients and this is what will be considered in the healthcare provision. In order to increase their perception to patient personalization, medical professionals have been able to formulate communication centers where they learn about patient preferences and how to align care to these preferences.
Personalization of care has affected various segments of care such as healthcare workers, patients, healthcare facilities as well as patient families. Personalization of care has been able to positively influence healthcare workers. Healthcare workers have been able to understand the importance of concepts such as patient autonomy. They have as well appreciated the importance of adept communication, because it is through communication that they are able to understand the preferences of the patients (Gormley & Fager, 2021). Personalization of care has impacted patients in the sense that they have been more responsive to healthcare interventions put forward by the medical professionals (Simmons et al., 2016). This is lauded to the circumstance that their preferences have been used as a basis for providing care to them. In the long run, patient experiences as well as positive outcomes have been significantly perfected.
Healthcare facilities have undergone improvements that have been a subject to personalization of care. As a result of personalization, healthcare facilities have had to undergo various modifications and renovations so as to accommodate the changes accompanied by personalization. For instance, there have been modifications to accommodate offices where healthcare professionals have one on one sessions with patients and through these sessions, they are able to have proper conceptualization of patient needs and preferences. These facilities have as well enhanced privacy of patients. Moreover, healthcare facilities have as well benefitted from additional resources and infrastructures that support personalization of care. Families are central to the health and wellbeing of patients. In some setups, healthcare professionals depend on the families to assist in health promotion of the patient. Family members are able to influence the personalization of care in the context of being able to showcase the patient’s needs, preferences and even health conditions. This information can be helpful to healthcare professionals who will subsequently use the information to formulate intervention mechanisms.
References
Gormley, J., & Fager, S. K. (2021). Personalization of Patient-Provider Communication Across the Lifespan. Topics in language disorders, 41(3), 249.
Kocaballi, A. B., Berkovsky, S., Quiroz, J. C., Laranjo, L., Tong, H. L., Rezazadegan, D., ... & Coiera, E. (2019). The personalization of conversational agents in health care: systematic review. Journal of medical Internet research, 21(11), e15360.
Simmons, L. A., Drake, C. D., Gaudet, M. T. W., & Snyderman, R. (2016). Personalized Health Planning in Primary Care Settings Personalized health planning can be operationalized as a health care delivery model to support personalized, proactive, patient-driven care.