Becker's Healthcare March 23, 2016
The financial pressures associated with expanding adoption of meaningful use and increasing urgency about value-based payment models are driving more hospitals and health systems to embrace care coordination.
The big emphasis is on improving utilization metrics and, ultimately, the organization’s financial condition. Almost as default, hospitals are turning to electronic medical record (EMR) platforms to handle the important task of care coordination.
Care coordination offers significant benefits to patients, providers and payors by improving both clinical and business outcomes. And EMRs contain essential information to support care coordination. But the unique needs of different types of patients and treatments (e.g., inpatient acute care versus mainly outpatient, complex or chronic care) are so different that care coordination means very different things...
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