Time Is Right For Patient-Centered Approach To Health Care Because Current Way “Is Not Working” – FDA’s Hamburg

FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, along with AHRQ Director Carolyn Clancy, reflects on why there is a buzz around patient-centered health care and what patient engagement can mean to drug development and health care as a whole.

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...

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