Case Management Advisor – December 1, 2015

December 1, 2015

• Case management program produces dramatic results

  A case management program for a large health system has produced dramatically improved healthcare and cost savings results.

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• How incentives, case management improve outcomes in diabetic patients

  The Triad HealthCare Network’s wellness program relies on incentives and case management to improve outcomes in reducing hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and costs for a large health system payer’s members.

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• Elder care is growing issue in case management

  As the baby boomers age, case managers will need to learn more about how this large senior citizen demographic shift will affect healthcare management and services, including end-of-life services.

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• Interdisciplinary mistrust, communication breakdowns cited in survey of ED handoffs

  A recent survey found that nearly a third of all the participating physicians reported having handoff-related adverse events, and most put the blame on ineffective communication.

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• Treat diagnostic errors as systemic, not individual human mistakes

  Diagnostic errors are underappreciated and will require a collaborative approach to reduce them, according to a recent report from the Institute of Medicine.

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• IOM says diagnosis errors underappreciated

  The delivery of healthcare has proceeded for decades with a blind spot: Diagnostic errors — inaccurate or delayed diagnoses — persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients.

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