The American College of Emergency Physicians' Delivery System Task Force released a report exploring the role of emergency medicine in future healthcare delivery systems.
The report, "Strategies for Emergency Medicine," discusses ways emergency medicine can aid healthcare organizations in new models of care.
The task force made several recommendations for emergency medicine to expand its current role of treating urgent and emergent cases, managing capacity and other responsibilities, to create a more integrated, coordinated healthcare system.
Some recommendations include the following:
• Share information with primary care providers and specialists.
• Coordinate care for high-cost users.
• Collect regionalized data for surveillance and development of evidence-based care protocols.
• Enhance professional alliances.
• Re-engage with the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians and others.
• Make technology alliances.
• Regionalize patient care resources (mobile technology, telemedicine).
• Implement practical solutions for transitions of care.
• Develop cost-effective alternatives to hospital admission.
• Develop cost-effective utilization strategies.
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The report, "Strategies for Emergency Medicine," discusses ways emergency medicine can aid healthcare organizations in new models of care.
The task force made several recommendations for emergency medicine to expand its current role of treating urgent and emergent cases, managing capacity and other responsibilities, to create a more integrated, coordinated healthcare system.
Some recommendations include the following:
• Share information with primary care providers and specialists.
• Coordinate care for high-cost users.
• Collect regionalized data for surveillance and development of evidence-based care protocols.
• Enhance professional alliances.
• Re-engage with the American College of Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians and others.
• Make technology alliances.
• Regionalize patient care resources (mobile technology, telemedicine).
• Implement practical solutions for transitions of care.
• Develop cost-effective alternatives to hospital admission.
• Develop cost-effective utilization strategies.
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