Case Management Advisor – June 1, 2015

June 1, 2015

• Need for Case Managers Rises with the ACO Boom

  The Affordable Care Act provides more opportunities for case management and greater demand for CM experts.

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• Strategies for flexible case management in the ACO model

  Accountable care organizations make it possible for case/care managers to help patients improve their health through creative and flexible solutions, particularly during transitions, experts say.

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• Case study in how CMs can help make ACOs successful

  According to one accountable care organization, the key to success is to change the healthcare philosophy of intermittent and emergent care to an ongoing, coordinated care philosophy.

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• Mount Sinai leverages smartphone technology to boost ED care coordination

  Using telemedicine in the care and treatment of stroke patients is widely used and accepted at this point; the approach facilitates quick access to expert consultations when time to treatment is a critical factor. However, some medical centers are finding that there are other ways to take advantage of telemedicine in the emergency setting, and they’re testing out methods to most effectively leverage its ability to connect with patients from a remote location.

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• EHR failures create havoc for hospitals

  The wide adoption of electronic health records and other electronic systems inevitably means that healthcare facilities will have to cope with outages. Several facilities recently have experienced how much the failure of one of those systems can cripple a hospital.

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