Improving the Continuity of Care
By Lee Horner – The continuity of care is defined as the integration and coordination of medical information and care across a patient’s specific providers and related settings / facilities.
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The Precision Medicine Era is Dawning
By Teresa Zayas Caban & Kevin Chaney – PMI will advance the nation’s ability to accelerate scientific discovery and improve clinical care through an innovative approach that takes into account individual differences in people’s genes, environments, and lifestyles.
Is Your Practice Making These 6 Common Care Coordination Mistakes?
By Christian Kratsas – Care coordination missteps are damaging to providers across the healthcare industry and one huge, overarching mistake is apparent: not enough information is being shared.
Connect for Care
By Karen B. DeSalvo – Recently, I spoke at the Bipartisan Policy Center about our vision for the near future where electronic health information is unlocked and securely accessible to achieve better care, smarter spending, and healthier people.
How Do We Achieve Coordinated Health Care?
By Robert Rowley MD – A recent study of healthcare organizations showed that most are not prepared to deliver standardized longitudinal care across multiple provider systems. Shared care plans will be the centerpiece of coordinated care delivery, incentivized by the move from fee-for-service to value-based care.
Greenway Health Connects Care Through Commonwell
Greenway Health™ announced that its Greenway Prime Suite® customers around the country can now use CommonWell Health Alliance services to exchange clinical information with other participants at no cost.
How Accountable is the Care Without Behavioral Health?
By Edmund Billings MD – I could understand completely if many behavioral health providers and facilities feel like the proverbial red headed stepchild. All this energy and money poured into improving healthcare through comprehensive information technology (IT) systems and behavioral health is left holding an empty basket.