IBM urges healthcare institutions to embrace 'Patient-Centric Healthcare' |

IBM urges healthcare institutions to embrace 'Patient-Centric Healthcare' : "'Putting the patient at the center of the healthcare ecosystem is really the key to continuing improvement in levels of care,' said Matej Adam, Healthcare Industry Leader, IBM Central and Eastern Europe. 'Healthcare institutions are coming under increasing pressure worldwide to drive both levels of care upwards and costs downwards: a challenge that requires fundamental changes across many parts of the healthcare system. The patient-centric healthcare model puts the patient in charge of his or her well-being by defining treatment and operational policies that center around the individual. IBM technology now makes this approach practical and allows institutions to realize business efficiencies as well as improving levels of patient care.'"