Primary care providers have developed standing agreements with other healthcare providers and community-based organizations to coordinate care. Early experiences with these agreements are discussed.

Value-based programs such as accountable care organizations appear to encourage the adoption and spread of care coordination activities by hospitals. Objectives: To examine the relationship between ...

SENIOR SERVICES: A home visit allows Care Coordinators to understand not just the challenges an older adult faces, but also ...

A new survey examining how U.S. hospitals are addressing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 30-day readmission penalties found that most facilities agree on what core strategies work the ...

Hospitals participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative have had success reducing inappropriate emergency department use, according to an RWJF issue ...

In its third release of HIPAA guidance over the past few weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released“The Real HIPAA: Care Coordination, Care Planning, and Case Management ...

Equality Health, a health system headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, needed to figure out how to connect at scale with underserved and disengaged patients in a way that helps them effectively be ...

The financial pressures associated with expanding adoption of meaningful use and increasing urgency about value-based payment models are driving more hospitals and health systems to embrace care ...

A new Health Policy Brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines efforts to better manage and coordinate care of more than nine million Americans covered by both Medicare ...

Strategies to help nurse leaders better support care coordination and transition care management efforts include knowing the patient population, leveraging the value of technology, and engaging staff ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Individuals involved in cancer care in prisons identified multiple barriers, including coordination and ...