Care coordination is becoming increasingly important in U.S. healthcare for a variety of reasons, including the increased use of value-based care models, the behavioral care shortage and a boom in ...

Traditional care coordination is broken. Registered nurses (RNs), physician assistants (PAs), care managers, physicians, and healthcare administrative personnel are most likely nodding their heads in ...

Holston Medical Group has been able to reduce emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions. A Tennessee-based physician group is utilizing care coordination and patient outreach to ...

A new survey examining how U.S. hospitals are addressing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 30-day readmission penalties found that most facilities agree on what core strategies work the ...

The ongoing shift to value-based care has placed a significant emphasis on provider performance and outcomes. But with clinical staffing shortages near all-time highs, delivering the right care at the ...

Primary care physicians in the US, like their colleagues in several other high-income countries, are increasingly tasked with coordinating services delivered not just by specialists and hospitals but ...

Addressing avoidable emergency department (ED) utilization takes interventions in partnership with providers. Emergency department (ED) utilization contributes significantly to medical expenditure in ...

Hospitals participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative have had success reducing inappropriate emergency department use, according to an RWJF issue ...

COVID-19 has brought up the issue of fragmented health information again, making interoperability of health data paramount. Therefore, there could have been no better time for the interoperability and ...

Older adults with cardiovascular disease (CVD) or CVD risk factors report that gaps in communication among their providers are common and hazardous. Objectives: We sought to determine whether patients ...

The significant increase in spending on general population and military veteran health care in the United States is a multi-faceted and complex issue that deserves attention. Prior to the COVID-19 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Individuals involved in cancer care in prisons identified multiple barriers, including coordination and ...