H&HN October 9, 2017
To support integrated care teams, organizations need to look at where there are gaps appropriate for technology to fill.
As health care organizations seek to deliver the highest quality of care to their communities while containing health care costs in the process, coordinating patient care effectively across the continuum is more crucial than ever. The mix of providers involved in a given patient’s care has grown as medicine has become increasingly specialized. As providers, we have an obligation to understand what each episode of care offers the patient and to ensure those episodes are not viewed in isolation, but rather as part of an arcing narrative with the patient at its center.
And yet, given the overwhelming demands on...