What Is Integrated Healthcare And Will It Help You?

Integrated healthcare is a way to allow patients to receive care in the most efficient, effective manner possible. The definition of integrated healthcare is also very different from other terms used to describe healthcare. For example, the most common way to describe integrated health is not so much as competent and skilled personnel working together but more as persons and services working together because their respective roles are mutually dependent (e.g., a physician’s role in caring for a patient involves many, many responsibilities).

Still, there are similarities: interdependence between people, persons and services being inherently connected and collaborative; people being interdependent on each other; knowledge and skills being interdependent.

There are also substantial benefits of integrated healthcare as compared with other forms of medical care. Efficient care: Patients are more likely to get better care if:

• They have access to information on how their condition develops over time
• They have access to information on how their condition will respond over time (e.g., an explanation of what drugs might be helpful in treating the disease)
• They can be treated at home (e.g., an explanation of why it’s not always necessary or advisable for a patient with diabetes to be admitted)
• They can be treated at home (e.g., an explanation of why it’s not always necessary or advisable for a patient with diabetes or other chronic diseases or injuries)
• They can be treated at home (e.g., an explanation of why it’s not always necessary or advisable for a patient with schizophrenia or other mental illnesses)

Integrated healthcare allows these things because:

• For patients who do not have insurance coverage, their ability to get good quality medical care hinges heavily on whether there are resources available to pay for it (accessing physicians who will provide them with information about their condition; coordinating medical staff who may have experience in treating particular kinds of conditions).
• Medical staff often do not have access to all the information needed by patients when caring for them; this means that non-medical staff often need assistance in identifying which information is needed by patients and which may be sufficient independently or need only limited assistance from medical staff when caring for them (for example, non-medical staff may want lists that include the history and demographics of cardiac risk factors

How integrated healthcare works

From a user perspective: it is far easier to use an integrated healthcare system than a single system. Users don’t just have to navigate between different systems, they have to navigate across several different systems too. That is a lot of work. The flip side is that integrated healthcare gives the user more control over their health and can reduce costs, which are often high in the case of integrated healthcare...

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We’ve been talking about integration for quite a while now; perhaps this post will help shed some light on some key aspects. Let me know if I missed anything or if you have any questions.

I was inspired to write this article after my conversation with Zahid Ali, Digital Health & Innovation Leader, HIMSS 2022 Change Maker and Founder at TECHMEDO In this episode, we talked about Integrated Healthcare, equity and accessibilty in Healthcare. A great discussion where we touched on many important points, from identifying the different stakeholders, building a common framework to exploring the capabilities to connect all the different facilities involved.

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