Challenges in management of prescriptions for patient-centric care

Abstract

The paradigm changes from the product-centric market to patient1 centric care are a revolutionary change in health care delivery. The Federation of International Pharmacy (FIP), WHO, and all most all drug regulatory authorities of the developed countries are emphasizing on the importance of patient centric care and outcome research to measure quality of life of the patients. The governments are encouraging the health care providers for focusing on the patient care by providing the direct incentivizes on the other hand, health insurance companies are also putting pressure on health care providers to minimize the cost on medication by adapting to generic prescribing. In developing 2 countries, although the government has realized the importance of patient centric care, they are also emphasizing to set the house in order by bringing various laws and regulations for example Pharmacy Practice Regulations 2015. In this manner they are bringing out fundamental changes in implementing the existing laws and enacting the new laws in regulations to improve the quality of life of patients. In this article we discuss the trends and their impact on clinical, humanistic and economic outcomes.