ASCP is partnering with the ABIM Foundation to strengthen relationships and build trust among healthcare stakeholders by creating resources to help patients better understand their diagnosis and test results in order to enhance overall patient care.
As a member of the ABIM Foundation’s Trust Practices Network, ASCP submitted a best practice designed to build trust in health care by strengthening communication between patients and their healthcare team, including pathologists and laboratory professionals. The ASCP Patient Champions program achieves this by 1) sharing patient stories about how the laboratory has saved their lives, and 2) by creating flyers, courses and events to educate patients to understand their lab results and the value of pathology. The goal is to help patients make informed health decisions. Sharing ASCP’s insights as part of this national effort will help start conversations and build momentum for positive change.
“Every day, medical experts are forced to compete with less credible, but potentially more trusted sources of information, negatively impacting patients and health care,” said Lotte Mulder, ASCP Director of Leadership and Empowerment. “The first step toward building trust is sharing information about aspects fundamental to health care, such as laboratory test and diagnoses. We hope people learn from our expertise, and we will certainly learn from other organizations.”
Declining trust is impacting nearly every facet of society, and health care is no exception. ASCP’s participation in the ABIM Foundation’s Trust Practices Network is one component of a broader, multi-year, multi-stakeholder initiative called Building Trust, recently launched by the ABIM Foundation. The program seeks to improve relationships between heath care stakeholders, ultimately bolstering clinical outcomes and medical professionalism.
“Building trust requires engaged and proactive partners across the health care spectrum to better identify what’s happening and share best practices to increase trust between different parties,” said Daniel Wolfson, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the ABIM Foundation. “We’re thrilled that ASCP has joined the Trust Practices Network to help us rethink how to elevate trust in health care.”
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