http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/16/controlling-health-care-costs-and-improving-quality-with-effective-care-coordination/ Health Policy Consulting and Writing to Improve Quality, Reduce Costs, and Increase Value in US Healthcare Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/16/controlling-health-care-costs-and-improving-quality-with-effective-care-coordination/#comment-21243 Health Policy and Communications Blog » Blog Archive » Beyond Health Insurance Reform: Transforming Health Care Delivery Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:30:04 +0000 http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/16/controlling-health-care-costs-and-improving-quality-with-effective-care-coordination/#comment-21243 [...] fee-for-service structure and non-integrated delivery systems. For example, the results of a large Medicare demonstration project showed almost no benefit from 15 different care coordination pilot sites - primarily because the [...] [...] fee-for-service structure and non-integrated delivery systems. For example, the results of a large Medicare demonstration project showed almost no benefit from 15 different care coordination pilot sites – primarily because the [...]

]]> http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/16/controlling-health-care-costs-and-improving-quality-with-effective-care-coordination/#comment-12735 Rhonda Davis Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:14 +0000 http://www.healthpolcom.com/blog/2009/02/16/controlling-health-care-costs-and-improving-quality-with-effective-care-coordination/#comment-12735 As healthcare providers we need to get a handle on patients with chronic conditions. These patinets require management and coordination from a multidisciplinary approach with communication being the foundation. Compliance with medication is a critical element when mananging these chronically ill patients and I agree medication compliance needs to be improved. Medications need to be reconciled for patients continuously. Every admission and doctors visit should entail a thorough medication reconciliation. Physicians and nurses should provide patients with an easy to understand "checklist" of their medications. This checklist should educate the patient about the medicine and tell the patient if they are to continue, modify, or discontinue the medicine. This process would be even more effective of we could develop a way to have it computerized and healthcare professionals could access the information using te patients Medicare #. Furthermore, quality can be increased if this program could cross reference meds to see any of them interfere with one another. Maybe contributions like these can help reform health care delivery and strengthen communication. As healthcare providers we need to get a handle on patients with chronic conditions. These patinets require management and coordination from a multidisciplinary approach with communication being the foundation. Compliance with medication is a critical element when mananging these chronically ill patients and I agree medication compliance needs to be improved. Medications need to be reconciled for patients continuously. Every admission and doctors visit should entail a thorough medication reconciliation. Physicians and nurses should provide patients with an easy to understand “checklist” of their medications. This checklist should educate the patient about the medicine and tell the patient if they are to continue, modify, or discontinue the medicine. This process would be even more effective of we could develop a way to have it computerized and healthcare professionals could access the information using te patients Medicare #. Furthermore, quality can be increased if this program could cross reference meds to see any of them interfere with one another. Maybe contributions like these can help reform health care delivery and strengthen communication.

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