A few patients and professionals sre involved with an attempt to draft two or three articles entitled "Patients access to digital records - future of healthcare" for the World Medical Journal. The articles(s) are beginning to cover health literacy and patient and family agency.
We are using Avedis Donabeidian's model of structure, processes, and outcomes. Donabeidian categorises health processes into structures, processes, and outcomes.
As we write the articles we are seeing knowledge coming into focus as part of the structure of service provider and parient agency. Both service providers and patients need both data and kniwledge, understanding and wisdom to process health for better outcomes.
Hopefully we can provide more knowledge to patients to coincide with provision if their data. Knowledge is part of the structure of professional, family, and patient agency.
Data are analyses and measurements of entities. Information is the presentation of data in a manner that informs. Knowledge is the possession of two or more pieces of information about the same data. Understanding is the memorised experience and observation of the applying the knowledge. Wisdom is the accumulation of two or more applications of understandings.
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HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com