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Home-Based Care Reimagined
As part of our Age-Friendly Health series, Christine Ritchie and Bruce Leff describe what a care delivery system for elders focused on the home and community would look like, and they present evidence to support its importance.
The authors define eight principles that should guide the development of care delivery systems for elders, including person-centered care, respect for and attention to caregivers, and competent clinicians and providers.
Ritchie and Leff also discuss what it would take to create "a distributed health care delivery ecosystem," noting that in the current facility-based system, "...although convenient for clinicians, the facilities have turned out to be
suboptimal for many patients."
The authors conclude that with payment and regulatory enhancements; targeting of high-need populations; attention to coordinated and stream-lined logistics, technology, and data; and full engagement of social and behavioral services, health care will gradually shift to the home.
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Today in Health Affairs
Forefront, Alexander Dworkowitz writes about provider obligations for patient portals under the 21st Century Cures Act and the information blocking rule issued by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Dworkowitz writes that hospitals and other providers throughout the country have significantly changed the information available to patients in their portals as a direct result of the information blocking rule.
He indicates that health care providers’ efforts to give their patients better access to their information will be subject to scrutiny for years to come.
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