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Patient care is entrusted to the healthcare provider, but its management is done by the pharma company, at least at the higher levels and down to a lot of details. This is the case so that the patient has a good experience with his treatment with the healthcare provider. In this blog, we will look at why patient care management is important, what its elements are, and what benefits result from great patient care management.
Why Patient Care Management is Important?
Patient care management is important because it not only is a statutory requirement, to ensure QoL of the patient, it also ensures that the reputation of the healthcare provider and the pharma company involved is intact and brings about more transparency and increases patient confidence in the treatment process.
What are the Elements of Patient Care Management?
- Having dedicated care teams will help promote communication and collaboration based on the patient’s health conditions, suggested therapies, and patient care planning.
- Educating Patients will help reduce the friction between patients and healthcare providers. Healthcare materials illustrated with graphics or charts help educate the patient about the condition and improve adherence.
- Winning support of all the stakeholders will ensure that the patient care program is a success. This includes the pharma company, the healthcare provider, the insurance provider, the staff at the hospital and even the patient himself.
- Making the program easy to follow and personalized will ensure buy-in from the patient and from the healthcare staff as well. Once this happens, the patient care management or the patient support program is bound to be a success.
- Improving and optimizing the patient care program over time will ensure that the program keeps updated with the latest in technology, whether it is a faster app for medication adherence or connecting with communities of people with the disease.
What are the Benefits of Patient Care Management?
Patient care management has the following benefits.
1. Online Consent Module – Digital Consent backup
Consent is stored digitally, and the backup of the consent can be made easily. The fact that it is stored online makes retrieval and even deletion much easier, for any reason.
2. Call Recordings Module
If the patient has given consent to have his/her consultations recorded, then the calls can be recorded and archived, to be accessed later. This ensures that the doctor has access to the history of the patient and all the consultations made.
3. Virtual Tool Kit for Patient Education
The toolkit helps the patient understand the dos and don’ts of the treatment used, the medication side effects, and other treatment areas.
4. Data Confidentiality
The data is stored in a secure and confidential manner. The patient can access it at anytime from anywhere without worrying about it being lost or altered in any way.
5. Remote Counselling
The patient can access the doctor’s office from anywhere, allowing tele counselling and consequent help to be provided easily, no matter where the patient is located.
6. Report ADR events through the system
ADR events can be reported to the doctor very quickly, ensuring that corrective actions can be taken almost immediately. The ADR events can also be stored in a database, which could help with the pharma company’s R&D also.
How to Improve Patient Care Management?
There are several ways to improve a patient care management program.
- It must be adaptive to patient behaviors and changes in the market, changes in technology and treatment methods too.
- It must have measurable KPIs, and it must be easy to monitor them.
- Data must be regularly collected at all stages of the PSP program.
- Evaluate how the PSP can be improved in comparison with other offerings in the market.
Why Should Alp Consulting Be Your PSP Partner?
Alp Consulting is obsessed as much with perfection as with care. And both of them come together in a PSP program. If in a PSP, you look for stringent quality standards with regard to how care is delivered, you must also look for how well and with how much sincerity and empathy the patient is being treated. When both come together and the technology is present to enable quality treatment, then we have a successful PSP program. When are you talking to Alp Consulting?
