The Need for Clinical Integration in Healthcare Clinical integration is a collaborative effort between different types of clinicians that work with patients to ensure quality care. The efforts can also reduce health care costs. Many studies have proved the benefits of clinical integration in improving patient outcomes and reducing health care costs (Clark, Savitz, & Pingree, 2010; Conrad, 1993; Managed Care Weekly Digest, 2011). Others on the other hand, have only analyzed the effects of specific chronic problems to reduce cost (Shiver,2007; Valenti, 2001). There have been other analyses done that looked specifically at the use of technology to improve patient outcomes (Porterfield, eEngelbert, Coustasse & Alberto, 2014; Ng, Finnigan, Connellan
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He classifies them as inputs and outputs. The inputs are things like, “equipment, supplies, human resources, information and technology. His outputs would be “preventative, diagnostic, acute, chronic and rehabilitation”. Conrad also looks at the driving factors to implement clinical integration, such as insurance reimbursement, governmental rules, technology, and the rising cost of healthcare. He goes into detailed factors to support the need for clinical integration, but also the challenges. In his findings, he examines provider reimbursement rate, government regulatory rules, technology and improving patient outcomes. Conrad, finds there are several challenges in the different care area settings to implement a complete clinical integration model. Some of the challenges he focused on were the rising cost of healthcare and the challenges healthcare systems faced in being able to share patient information easily. The inability to share patient information quickly, could cause costly duplicative testing to be performed unnecessarily and possible …show more content…
Some of the areas that were noted in this study were using technology to verify insurance coverage, bedside registration and fast tracking of non-urgent cases. The use of technology helped increase patient satisfaction by 30 percent, Employee satisfaction by 20% and increased patient volume by 35%. The facility showed an increase in revenue from the ER of 3.2 million per year, which was due to increase volume and collection (Shiver, 2007).
Article Six The authors of this article examined the benefits and barriers to electronic-prescribing of medications. “The study was conducted in three stages: (1) identifying literature and collecting data, (2) analyzing and evaluating the literature found and (3) categorizing the literature” (Porterfield, Engelbert, Coustasse & Alberto, 2014). Some of the benefits to implementing e-prescribing were increased patient safety, patient medication adherence and cost savings and governmental programs such as CMS that support and give incentives for meeting Meaningful Use standards. Some of the barriers found were implementation costs, System errors and privacy and legal issues. The findings from the study showed the potential to increase patient safety and cost savings for medical facilities by implementing e-prescribing (Porterfield, Engelbert, Coustasse & Alberto,
He classifies them as inputs and outputs. The inputs are things like, “equipment, supplies, human resources, information and technology. His outputs would be “preventative, diagnostic, acute, chronic and rehabilitation”. Conrad also looks at the driving factors to implement clinical integration, such as insurance reimbursement, governmental rules, technology, and the rising cost of healthcare. He goes into detailed factors to support the need for clinical integration, but also the challenges. In his findings, he examines provider reimbursement rate, government regulatory rules, technology and improving patient outcomes. Conrad, finds there are several challenges in the different care area settings to implement a complete clinical integration model. Some of the challenges he focused on were the rising cost of healthcare and the challenges healthcare systems faced in being able to share patient information easily. The inability to share patient information quickly, could cause costly duplicative testing to be performed unnecessarily and possible …show more content…
Some of the areas that were noted in this study were using technology to verify insurance coverage, bedside registration and fast tracking of non-urgent cases. The use of technology helped increase patient satisfaction by 30 percent, Employee satisfaction by 20% and increased patient volume by 35%. The facility showed an increase in revenue from the ER of 3.2 million per year, which was due to increase volume and collection (Shiver, 2007).
Article Six The authors of this article examined the benefits and barriers to electronic-prescribing of medications. “The study was conducted in three stages: (1) identifying literature and collecting data, (2) analyzing and evaluating the literature found and (3) categorizing the literature” (Porterfield, Engelbert, Coustasse & Alberto, 2014). Some of the benefits to implementing e-prescribing were increased patient safety, patient medication adherence and cost savings and governmental programs such as CMS that support and give incentives for meeting Meaningful Use standards. Some of the barriers found were implementation costs, System errors and privacy and legal issues. The findings from the study showed the potential to increase patient safety and cost savings for medical facilities by implementing e-prescribing (Porterfield, Engelbert, Coustasse & Alberto,