Health Affairs April 6, 2020
For centuries, the dominant form of medical care has been based on a one-to-one relationship between a physician and an individual patient: The patient presents with an illness, and a physician diagnoses the ailment and prescribes treatment. In contrast, with a one-to-many model of care, a health care professional can manage a group of patients using remote monitoring tools and patient-generated data, and identify those requiring in-the-moment care. One-to-many care can take multiple forms, but a core concept is management by exception, in which patient data is tracked and reviewed regularly and the provider only intervenes on patients who need attention at any given moment.
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Care delivery in the US often involves multiple clinicians, and managed care...
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