 Connected Health, Personalised Medicine and the End of Managerialism?Sara Melo and
Matthias Beck
Chapter 6 in Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare, 2014, pp 184-198 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses some recent developments in healthcare-related thinking which focus on the possibility or actuality of medicine and care becoming person-centred. These approaches are frequently associated with terms such as telehealth, connected health, individualised medicine, personalised medicine and person-centred medicine (PCM). As a commonality, these new models emphasise the inadequacy of past concepts of care quality and past approaches to care provision and clinical practice, all of which are said to have focused on results being obtained in relation to ‘average’ patients. In this context, contemporary concepts of personalised medicine dovetail with a critique of evidence- based medicine (EBM), which views EBM as ‘incapable of incorporating patient’s values and preferences into clinical decision making when these are in conflict with EBM’s “evidence”’ (Miles and Loughlin, 2011, p. 532; referencing among others Miles, 2009; Sturmberg, 2009; Charlton, 2009; Howick, 2011). Keywords: Quality Management; British Medical Journal; Veteran Health; Social Work Practice; Home Care Provider (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-35199-9_6 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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