ABSTRACT
Abstract A patient-consumer focused health learning system with active engaged patients will take new forms of integration, channels of interoperability, and fact-based analytics that both providers, health systems, and most importantly, the patients can use. Some of the key building blocks for this type of transformation are described. The book provides a framework that many can fill in the missing pieces. The current use of health IT has not shown true benefits and improved usability, better focus on integration, and use of new underlying technology that reduces the confusion, the complexity, and the burden on both the patient-consumer and the providers-community caseworkers. This can improve a new enabler of practice transformation for providers of the providers, commute foster engagement by patient-consumers, and link them to their neighborhoods and the communities of health interest. These new simplified interfaces and aligned systems can be real enablers for many with rare diseases, those suffering from cancer, and the most vulnerable populations.
