The home-based care industry is uniquely equipped to improve care coordination and enhance care for patients. To expand the role that care coordination ...

The authors investigated whether patient coordination and caregiver support for Alzheimer disease reduced health care utilization and expenditures among enrollees in the Memory Program in South ...

There will always be a myriad of providers across the care continuum, creating challenges for real-time communications, updates and clinical care. A survey published in Health Affairs found the ...

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Quality healthcare relies on the ability of providers to share patient data and coordinate care. A patient may visit their primary care physician at the beginning of a care episode and then be ...

When medically complex patients require hospital care, they tend to experience longer recovery times than other patients do and are more likely to readmit to the ICU. 1,2 Kindred Hospitals, a network ...

Columbus-based OhioHealth has launched a new effort to expand access to comprehensive care for individuals with substance use disorders in rural Southeast Ohio. The Addiction Medicine Program is based ...

Strategies to help nurse leaders better support care coordination and transition care management efforts include knowing the patient population, leveraging the value of technology, and engaging staff ...

An emerging group of professionals, most often RNs, work across the care continuum to provide ongoing, proactive help at a lower cost to patients with high risk or complex needs. Healthcare ...

The intricate web of communications that support patient flow from admission to discharge play a critical role in optimizing patient throughput and ensuring the best, timely delivery of patient care.

Patient care coordination appears to be more of a challenge in the United States than in other countries. Fewer U.S. primary care physicians receive information from specialists about changes in their ...

Thanks to a series of new codes created by the American Medical Association's CPT Editorial Panel, physicians now have the opportunity to bill for much of the previously unreimbursed care-coordination ...