As capable allies in our collective fight against the pandemic and capable managers of community well-being (e.g. chronic disease management), [community partners] deserve equal attention and assistance.
As Telehealth Tech Matures, Can Providers Catch Up?
HIMSS18 offered evidence that the telehealth market is beginning to mature, but it remains to be...
Care Management in an Evolving Healthcare Industry
Care management, sometimes referred to as medical management, is often used as an umbrella term...
Major Medical Decisions Still Require a Leap of Faith
Last weekend during dinner with my family, the topic of total knee replacements came up. My aunt,...
Next Frontier of Care Management
As we wrap up the forthcoming 2017 Care Management Market Trends Report, I have been pondering the issue of social determinants of health (SDoH). In our HIMSS Conference 2017 recap, we noted that SDoH “came across as an unexpectedly strong conference theme — though, again, we saw only random application of functional use cases.”
Medical Professionalism Trumps Health IT in Coordinating Care
As I sat in the Reading (Penn.) Health System ER late Friday night, I had a lot of time to reflect on the research I have been doing lately on care coordination. In particular, I pondered how what I have heard and seen among many demos the past several months compared to the state of care coordination my mother had received earlier in the day and was receiving at that very moment – all this amid the constant cacophony of chirps and beeps emitted from the controlled chaos in the ER that night.
Playing the Field
We don’t mean social dating, so don’t get too excited. We are referring to field care management,...
Without Communication, Coordinated Care Is Still Just Care
Back in October, I tore my left calf in the middle of a marathon. Like any crazy runner worth his...
HIMSS ’15: Care Management & Care Coordination Recap
Having finally caught-up from my many conversations at HIMSS ’15, I wanted to provide a recap of...