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 ...

The authors examined the association of diabetes with self-reported gaps in care coordination and self-reported preventable adverse events using data from a national sample of older adults. Objectives ...

Some may ask the question, “What does a care coordinator do for my personal well-being?” There is no short answer as to what a patient can benefit from by receiving assistance from a care coordinator.

Care coordination and patient identification represent two of the greatest challenges in health care. Finding the right patients and providing a catalyst for change in their behavior and how they are ...

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 ...

Effective care coordination (CC) is a hallmark of a high-quality cancer care. However, efforts to improve cancer care delivery are limited by the lack of a clinically useful tool to assess CC. In this ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United States faces ongoing risks from future public health threats, such as infectious diseases; extreme weather events; and biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological events.

Routine Blood Tests in Asymptomatic Patients With Indolent Lymphoma Have Limited Ability to Detect Clinically Significant Disease Progression Fig 1. Cancer care multiteam system. A specialized ...