One of the components of a value-enhancing HIT platform is that it is patient-centered. This means that the system trails the patients across services, sites, and time for the full episode of care, and this includes hospitalization, outpatient clinic visits, laboratory testing, physical therapy, and other types of interventions (Porter & Lee, 2013). And I’m inclined to agree with you that collaboration between laboratory and primary care services should be integrated and immediately available to patients. To integrate care for individual patients across locations, healthcare providers must learn to tie together the patient’s care across the different sites.
According to Porter and Lee (2013), establishing integrating mechanisms help ensure that a well-coordinated and a multidisciplinary care is delivered in a cost-effective and convenient way. An example of an integrating mechanism is assigning a single physician team captain for each patient and adopting …show more content…
I am glad to say that she has not had any re-occurrence of her condition in the past decade, thanks in part to the coordinated approach initiated by her PCP. The overarching goal of physicians in healthcare is improving value for patients, where value is defined as the health outcomes achieved that matter to patients relative to the cost of achieving those outcomes (Belliveau, 2016). Without the improvement of value, it will be difficult to accomplish integrating patient care and all efforts will be in vain.
References:
Belliveau, J. (2016). Exploring Two-Sided Financial Risk in Alternative Payment Models . Retrieved from https://revcycleintelligence.com/features/exploring-two-sided-financial-risk-in-alternative-payment-models
Porter, M., & Lee, T. (2013, October). The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. Retrieved from
According to Porter and Lee (2013), establishing integrating mechanisms help ensure that a well-coordinated and a multidisciplinary care is delivered in a cost-effective and convenient way. An example of an integrating mechanism is assigning a single physician team captain for each patient and adopting …show more content…
I am glad to say that she has not had any re-occurrence of her condition in the past decade, thanks in part to the coordinated approach initiated by her PCP. The overarching goal of physicians in healthcare is improving value for patients, where value is defined as the health outcomes achieved that matter to patients relative to the cost of achieving those outcomes (Belliveau, 2016). Without the improvement of value, it will be difficult to accomplish integrating patient care and all efforts will be in vain.
References:
Belliveau, J. (2016). Exploring Two-Sided Financial Risk in Alternative Payment Models . Retrieved from https://revcycleintelligence.com/features/exploring-two-sided-financial-risk-in-alternative-payment-models
Porter, M., & Lee, T. (2013, October). The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. Retrieved from