That being said, those of you who have no access to a clinical environment can
still come up with a long list of challenges and opportunities, and unmet
needs. Simply by observing yourself, your, the
behavior, and the concerns of your friends, your family, and people at large
in any setting, in any part of the world. So I, I encourage you to think about that
possibility, that opportunity for developing your own distinction track,
assignments, requirements for following that track.
And for succeeding and completing those requirementts in the course.
Now, for those of you who have more of a, a professional connection to the health
care realm. Perhaps it's easier for you to engage in
observing environments where the rest of the categories are explicitly
demonstrating themselves to take place. For instance it might be in diagnosis,
you might be seeing needs that hover around intervention, et cetera, et
cetera. The needs might come out in fact, in this
last component, which is probably the least understood.
Which is the integration, the better and smoother integration across the preceding
categories of patient information, patient knowledge that can be used to
treat. And to support the patient.
In other words, where in the healthcare environment as a whole do we cross over
the various components, the various categories we've laid out?
And often enough, information technologies play a role in either
attempting to overcome the silos, the diagnosis, intervention, recovery and the
like. And allowing those silos to communicate
with one another for the benefit of the patient and the provider.
So here we have the eight components. Find where you, find where you lie, where
your expertise is and where your problem areas and observed areas are within this
healthcare framework. Once you've done that, once you've
located precisely what area in the healthcare framework you've concentrated
on. Then out of that framework, out of that
area can emerge a sort of typology, a more nuance typology of, of stakeholders.
So who are the stakeholders most affiliated with that particular problem
area? That could be consumers, for example, and
consumers is a broad category. I don't simply mean patients and family
members of patients. I also mean care advocacy groups who have
taken it upon themselves to support the rights and, and to strengthen the care
provided to particular populations. So there's the consumers, there are
professionals, we've already talked at length about them, there are researchers.
And that means to extend the continuum of care all the way back to the bench
scientist, the one that is furthest removed from the point of care.
And yet whose discoveries will ultimately impact provider and patient possibly
years down the road and after a transition and translation process that
involves clinical trials. So the bench scientist may be absolutely
essential to understanding and improving a problem area.
Don't forget about researcher, they could be social scientists and environmental
health researchers as well. They're the policy makers and payers,
there is industry, those medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical
companies, and the non-governmental organization.
The various venture philanthropists, charities, foundations, the trade and
labor unions who will be, all of whom will be impacted potentially by a change
in the system, by an improvement to the system, by addressing a need within the
system. And finally a little word of advice with
all of these stakeholders in play. In order to decide for yourself which
representative groups to pursue when you recruit your informants.
Think of it as a, as an environmental space that you can, that you can scan
more easily by creating a visualization. In this case I've thrown together a slide
that shows you the relationships among various clusters of key stakeholders.
You can see that I've put the diabetes patient at, as an example, at the heart
of the issue, and radiating out from the patient because this is patient-centered
care. Radiating out becomes is clustered these
groups of healthcare professionals. On the one hand healthcare ecosystems in
a larger sense in the other and the various therapists and educators and
online support and family networks. That form the real foundation of care for
this patient. Do something similar for your own set of
needs if it's helpful and and you'll be prepared at that point to recruit your
key stake holders. And move forward into Part D of this
lecture where as I said before, we'll be talking in far more sort of pragmatic
terms about how to recruit these people. How to get them to give you the
information that you need and how to share back with them that information in
order to allow them to fully embrace your vision, your project and you particular
initiative. So we come to the end of Part A, I
want to thank you again for listening, want to say good bye to you now.
And hope that you'll view Part B at you convenience and and I appreciate your
attention, I really do. Thank you very much.
Bye bye.