Care Management Platforms: Supporting Value-Based Care Delivery
Hospitals and medical practices are getting hammered by value-based contracts. You get paid for keeping patients healthy, not just treating them when they're sick. Care Management Platform systems help you track patients between visits, spot problems early, and coordinate care across your entire network. Most practices still work the old way. Patients show up sick, you treat them, and they leave. That doesn't work when Medicare and insurance companies dock your payments for readmissions and poor outcomes. What is Care Management? Care Management is actually keeping track of your patients when they're not in your clinic. You monitor their medications, make sure they follow up with specialists, and catch problems before they land in the emergency room. Here's what care managers actually do: Check on high-risk patients between appointments Make sure patients actually take their pills Set up appointments with cardiologists and endocrinologists He...
