And the IT Strategy to reach your destination<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Integrated care \u2013 healthcare that crosses organisational boundaries and different care settings \u2013 is the goal of health systems worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of the challenges facing healthcare globally \u2013 ageing and expanding populations, the proliferation of chronic diseases, heightened consumer expectations, increasing focus on care quality and value based care, and changing financial and quality regulations \u2013 are underpinned or driven by fragmented healthcare services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current structure of health care delivery has been sustained for decades by a number of mutually reinforcing factors: siloed primary care practices; measurements of \u201cquality\u201d defined and incentivised as process compliance; care delivery systems with duplicative service lines and little integration; fragmented patient populations; and all underscored by siloed IT systems with little or no sharing of information \u2013 all of which are causing a desire to shift towards a more integrated healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While not easy to achieve, the strategy to support a coordinate model of care delivery can be achieved through 6 essential steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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