FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg believes patient-centered health care has become a focus in the current health care environment because the current health care system is not meeting patient needs.
“I think, sadly, part of it is the recognition that the current approach is not working,” Hamburg said when asked during a recent panel discussion why the concept of patient-centeredness has taken root. Hamburg went on to say that the current health care system “isn’t leveraging the advances in science and technology adequately in terms of delivering new treatments, preventions and cures to patients. Our health care system is not functioning in a way that best serves patients