Empowering Patients: Shared Decision Making in Healthcare

1. Shared Decision MakingWe’re in This Together Michael J. Barry, MDPresident

2. We Believe Patients Should Be

3. Why Shared Decision Making in Health Care?

4. Evidence of the Problem Medical Practice Variation 40 Years of Research Documenting Inconsistent Care The DECISIONS StudyA Portrait of How Americans Make Common Medical Decisions

5. Poor Decision Quality Patients: Making Decisions in the Face of Avoidable Ignorance Clinicians: Poorly “Diagnosing” Patients’ Preferences

6. Shared Decision Making • (Charles C, Soc Sci Med 1997; 44:681) • Clinician and patient work together • They share information • About options and outcomes • About preferences • They work toward a consensus about the preferred test or treatment • They reach an agreement on the test or treatment to implement

7. Supporting the Concept O’Connor et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009 • SDM supported by patient decision aids improves decision quality • Both patients and physicians support SDM • Implementation models are demonstrating that SDM can work “in the trenches”

9. Shared Decision MakingTRENDS

10. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Authorized not Appropriated HR3590 Section 936 Program to Facilitate Shared Decision Making To facilitate collaborative process between patients and providers .. and to incorporate patient preferences and values into medical plan

11. Key Aspects of PPACA Section 936 Produce patient decision aids Set quality standards and certify decision aids Create Shared Decision Making Resource Centers Grant funds to providers for development, use and assessment of SDM techniques using certified decision aids

12. Section 3021 CMS Innovation Center Test innovative payment models to reduce expenditures and to enhance quality of care Option #9 Assisting applicable individuals in making informed health care choices by paying providers for using patient decision support tools that improve individual understanding of medical options Section 931 Quality Measures Development Assessment of experience, use and quality of information provided to patients to inform decision making including the use of SDM tools

13. Shared Decision Making is at the Core of Ethical, Patient Centered Care • Patient Centered Medical Home • Accountable Care Organizations • Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology (HIT)

14. Thank You!mbarry@fimdm.orgwww.informedmedicaldecisions.org