When creating a care coordination model, it is important to understand what the model is trying to achieve and what everyone’s roles are in the model, explained Barbara Tofani, RN, MSN, NEA-BC, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the hospital setting, care coordination often starts in the emergency department, this CMO says. Care coordination is an important consideration for CMOs because patients often interact with ...

Results of our pilot randomized controlled intervention involving emergency department (ED)-based care coordination and community health workers demonstrated a trend toward fewer ED visits, fewer ...

As healthcare continues to evolve, discharge coordination software will play an increasingly important role in bridging the gap between hospital care and home care, ensuring that NICU graduates and ...

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 ...

A recent study found that 20 percent of Medicare patients discharged from the hospital will be readmitted within 30 days due to a lack of transparency around care transitions. With the number of ...

Home-based care consumer experiences are primarily shaped by patient and family education, along with effective care coordination. In interviews conducted ...

Care coordination is essential to improving a fragmented health care system. Value-based payment models such as accountable care organizations and bundled payments encourage providers to coordinate ...

Hospital readmissions are a significant driver of healthcare costs and inefficiencies. Addressing this issue is a challenge, however, because of the fragmented nature of the healthcare ecosystem.