What? According to the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality “Care coordination involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient’s care to achieve safer and more effective care. This means that the patient’s needs and preferences are known ahead of time and communicated at the right time to the right people, and that this information is used to provide safe, appropriate, and effective care to the patient.”
What? Why? Where? And Who Cares about Care Coordination?
Why? We live in such fast-paced environment, especially when we are talking about healthcare. Medscape, which is owned by WebMD, recently released its 2016 Physician Compensation Report, which features data from more than 19,000 doctors in 26 specialties. According to that report, the majority of doctors spend between 13-16 minutes with each patient. The same report underlines that the same doctors spend more time on paperwork – 10-14 hours per week, and that time keeps on growing, squeezing the time spend with patients. One would argue that with so much time spent on documentation, the care coordination should be superb. Sadly, this is not the case, did you know that the THIRD leading cause of death in the USA is a medical error? Medical error is defined by John’s Hopkins Dr. Makary and Dr. Daniel as not only lapses in judgment and skills but lack of coordination of care among other things.
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