Healthcare Innovation August 29, 2019
Researchers did note that there is room to improve the extent to which hospitals use care coordination activities
A study of more than 1,600 U.S. hospitals revealed that value-based programs such as accountable care organizations (ACOs) appear to encourage the adoption and spread of care coordination activities by hospitals.
For the study, researchers categorized value-based program participation as participation in either an ACO or a bundled payment program. They then assessed adoption—whether a hospital was using any of a set of 12 care coordination activities as outlined in an American Hospital Association (AHA) survey—and spread (in each hospital adopting care coordination activities, how extensively those activities were implemented throughout the hospital).
Care coordination activities in the AHA survey included...
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