Personalized health planning is the key feature of personalized health care as it anticipates the individual’s specific health needs and develops a coordinated means to achieve them. The personal health plan is developed collaboratively by the provider and the patient and utilizes comprehensive health risk assessment as the basis for both enhancing health and well-being and mitigating and tracking disease over time. Greater collaboration between patient and provider replaces the traditional physician-dominated dialogue with more effective patient-physician partnerships and continuity of care. The patient’s needs and goals for their health, wellness, and disease mitigation drive the planning process and nature of the plan.
The personalized health planning framework provides an operational care model for delivering personalized, proactive, preventative, patient-driven care to individuals with a diverse range of needs.
Personalized Health Planning (PHP) creates the process for engaging the patient in their care. It identifies needs and desires for their own health with therapeutic plans and support systems to achieve meaningful goals. We focus on empowering patients to adapt the behaviors that have the greatest impact on the ability to manage their chronic diseases. These include medication adherence, proper nutrition and hydration, physical activity, restful sleep, stress reduction, and mental and emotional well-being. The connection to mind-body is also encouraged through the practice of mindful meditation to be better attuned to oneself and behaviors.
Personalized health care is based on the concept that each of us is born with inherited susceptibilities or resistance to various diseases. Genetic susceptibilities for most chronic diseases are greatly impacted by what we do and what we are exposed to.
