HealthTeamWorks - care management https://www.healthteamworks.org/tags/care-management en Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients: An Urgent Priority https://www.healthteamworks.org/news/caring-high-need-high-cost-patients-urgent-priority <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="c-media"><div class="c-content-media-2-slider" data-slider="owl"><div class="owl-carousel owl-theme c-theme owl-single" data-single-item="true" data-auto-play="4000"><div class="item"> <div class = "hidden"><img class="img-responsive img-responsive" typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.healthteamworks.org/sites/default/files/styles/product_700x900/public/Chronic%20Care.jpg?itok=Fu6En2K2" width="700" height="900" alt="Alt" /></div><div class="c-content-media-2" style="min-height: 360px; background-image: url(https://www.healthteamworks.org/sites/default/files/styles/product_700x900/public/Chronic%20Care.jpg);"></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><p>Chronically ill patients account for 5% of the US population but 50% of healthcare spending. We can do better, and HealthTeamWorks<sup>®</sup> is committed to driving change to reduce healthcare spending. </p> <p>Leaders from five healthcare foundations asserted in a recent issue of the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em> that meaningful improvement in the health system will require improvement in care for those patients using it the most: people with multiple chronic conditions.  Critical to the design of effective interventions, these leaders say, is segmenting the high-need, high-cost population into subgroups with similar health care requirements. Several promising care models have demonstrated success, and these include programs that focus on transitions in care and extending primary care teams by integrating nonmedical services.nonmedical services.</p> <p>HealthTeamWorks<sup>®</sup> is evolving to meet this future challenge head on – we’re launching new initiatives that integrate the healthcare delivery and social safety net systems/social determinants of health in Colorado and beyond.</p> </div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><a href="/tags/care-management" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">care management</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-source field-type-link-field field-label-above"><span class = "field-span">Source: </span><a href="http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-brief/2016/jul/caring-high-need-high-cost-patients-urgent-priority?utm_source=HNHC%20NEJM%20IB&amp;utm_medium=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Delivery%20System%20Reform" target="_blank">Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients - An Urgent Priority</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-news-type field-type-entityreference field-label-above"><span class = "field-span">News Type: </span>Blog</div><div class="field field-name-field-publish-date field-type-datetime field-label-above"><span class = "field-span">Publish Date: </span><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2016-08-04T00:00:00-04:00">August 4th, 2016</span></div> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:00:00 +0000 Anonymous 279 at https://www.healthteamworks.org https://www.healthteamworks.org/news/caring-high-need-high-cost-patients-urgent-priority#comments