Patient centered care is the future of medicine. During the last 10 years the INTERMED method has been developed as a generic method for the assessment of the bio-psych-social health risks and health needs of individual patients needed for the planning of individualized integrated treatment. The INTERMED has been conceptualized to counteract divisionist and fragmentation of medical care. Designed to facilitate the communication between the patient and health care professionals as well as among different professions and disciplines, the INTERMED is a visualized, action-oriented decision-support tool, which guides to patient-oriented care

See also Friedrich C Stiefel, Frits J Huyse, Wolfgang Soellner, Joris PJ Slaets, John S Lyons, Corine HM Latour, Nynke van der Wal, and Peter de Jonge: Operationalizing Integrated Care on a Clinical Level: the INTERMED Project Care in Frits J Huyse and Friedrich C Stiefel Integrated care for the complex medically ill. Medical Clinics of North America Issue July 2006 Elsevier