Defining Humanized Medicine
Sean Tackett, MD, MPH, Gayle Adams, MSW, Belinda Chen, MD, Scott M. Wright, MD
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
The vague definition of terms used to describe relevant concepts for humanized barriers proves to be a barrier that continues to limit the impact of interventions to make healthcare more humanized. With a consensus definition of “humanizing medicine”, we can frame current problems to orient stakeholders to obtain more solvable, imaginable solutions that may include the integration of AI technologies in the future.
The authors will use a GCM-based study to create an operational definition of humanized medicine from the perspectives of a broad array of stakeholders and begin to identify the most important gaps at JHM. A variety of stakeholders in medicine including patients, community leaders, physicians, nurses, and other providers, administrators, health professions learners, educators, and researchers will contribute to defining the domains of humanized medicine.