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Care Management Plus can help create a medical home.
Care Managers act as a guide, coordinator, and helper to facilitate patients receiving coordinated, sensitive care.
- Evidence-based practice
- CMP: embeds certain disease protocols
- Clinic: consensus about approach and maintenance
- Performance Measurement
- CMP: Tracking database creates reports
- Clinic: works with payers to change reimbursement
- Collaborative care planning
- CMP:Care manager works with patient, family, and catalyzes plan
- Clinic: Refers appropriate patients for intervention.
- Health Information technology
- CMP: Provides pop. management and flexible reminders
- Clinic: Creates patient summary
- Planned visits
- CMP: assessment and structure part of training, protocols
- Clinic: has technique for less intensive structured visits.
- Quality improvement
- CMP: team approach part of assessment, CM training
- Clinic: must commit to measurement and change
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