Dr. Jennifer Lundblad

What are their needs?

What are they envisioning for their future?

And then together using tools to say, what's the decision that's best for this patient in terms of whether we adopt and use this technology or this method?

Are we sticking with the physical therapy route?

Are we sticking with other ways of managing pain?

Or are we going to turn to surgery?

What are the options that we have and how do we incorporate the patient's

preferences, goals, and perspectives into that decision alongside of the clinical and medical perspectives.

Yeah, absolutely.

And we know better than ever how important it is to pay attention to and build in those patient preferences.

It's not a one-way decision process, but a shared decision process in many instances.

I don't mean about everything.

Some things simply need to happen if it's urgent or emergent.

But for many things where we're making decisions around patients,

Care decisions where patients have options, having that patient voice and building that into the process is critically important.

That's where the action is.

Yeah.

So absolutely, Stratus Health, and when it was the foundation for healthcare evaluation, has its origins in focusing on quality, what was originally quality assurance, and then evolved to quality improvement and patient safety, working with and through healthcare organizations.

But now so much of our work is focused on building bridges between health care and community.

And right alongside that comes with the, I would say, overdue recognition that most