Care Coordination

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TOPIC: Care Coordination: A significant Hurdle Facing Healthcare Quality PURPOSE: This article reviews the current literature on care coordination. It highlights some of the barriers during care transition, solutions to some of the barriers, and influence of information technology on care coordination. SEARCH STRATEGIES: Multiple search engines such as CINAHL, Pubmed, Medline AND PsychInfo were searched using keywords such as, “care coordination”, “care coordination and information technology”. METHODOLOGY: Matrix method Introduction “The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality defined care coordination as “the deliberate organization of patient care activities between two or more participants (including the patient) involved in a patient’s …show more content…

Eight local hospital systems, a behavioral healthcare network, home healthcare providers, a lab, and over 1,400 physicians—Home health visiting nurses (HHVN's) clinical leaders participated in the project. The patient introduced the use of interactive video monitoring units and vital sign monitoring devices to at risk individuals with CHF. Application of telehealth played a significant role in the success of the project. Home diuretic protocol was developed and implemented. Finding revealed 10.5% decrease in hospital readmission rates, improve collaboration and care coordination among clinicians and others, health care leaders and, improved patient engagement, and improved patients’ ability to remain independent in their homes. It is evident that increased utilization of advance telehealth will enhance care coordination health care providers and improve health outcomes for patients. Another pilot project led by Sorocco, Bratkovich, Wingo, Qureshi, & Mason (2013) demonstrated that integration of Care Coordinated Home Telehealth (CCHT) and Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) are clinically beneficial to veterans with multiple health condition. Six veterans with comorbidities and their care givers were enrolled concurrently in both CCHT and HBPC. The project was coordinated by a psychologist on HBPC team tailored to enhance care coordination and health outcomes for veterans living with serious medical conditions and mental illnesses. CCHT provider provided home-based telehealth and telemental services through the use clinical technological video, and also reviewed vital signs and physical symptom daily. the LifeView system by American TeleCare was utilized due to its potential to allow for complete integration of CCHT and HBPC. Other technologies were used as well. In the event of any

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