How Home Health Care Improving Clinical Outcomes for the Chronically Ill

 

The increasing technological advancements have resulted in reform in the healthcare system. The positive changes have helped in solving numerous medical as well as societal issues. Some serious problems such as inefficiencies in the system, communication gaps, low quality, and poor population health with merely affordable cost.

These multiple barriers to the improvement have been evident for many decades but now with technological advancements we not only can deal with these issues but in a very efficient way.

Due to lack of integration among the health care workers, inadequate communication which results in delay in a delivery leaves the patients vulnerable.

These problems diminish the positives of the whole system and lead to higher costs. With the help of technology, we can tackle not all but major issues of the system. The technology can deal with the sophisticated, physician-led teams to help them manage their workload and help the chronic care services of the patients.

 The Challenges to Overcome

There are numerous challenges to overcome such as persistent inefficiencies, people’s resistance to change, interrelated issues across the whole system. We need a system that can prevent the mishappening with the help of critical information and provide patients with resources in time.

To make this happen we need a strategic vision and the ability to mobilize and deliver these resources to the patients. We need to make the professionals accessible to the patients to ensure that they are safe, coordinated, and have high-quality care which turns out to cost effective.

1.      Access to Healthcare Services

Access to healthcare services has always been difficult for a major part of the population. The lack of insurance coverage among citizens results in a higher cost of healthcare services. The situation is even worse in developing countries where there is less support from the government to provide people with insurance coverage.

This makes it challenging to provide healthcare services to all in an affordable price and maintain adequate supply of the resources. A major problem in this regard is that the hospitals, professionals, and other system constituents work in an unintegrated way and lack coordination.

 

2.      Cost of Care Services

There have been numerous attempts to reduce the cost of healthcare services but still the cost remains high and merely affordable. Most people rate cost as the biggest problem in all of the healthcare services.

Although the government is working on this and many big corporations now provide healthcare insurance to their employees to even the gap.

 

3.      Health care Quality and Safety Issues

There have been seen serious gaps in guidelines and the actual processes conducted which impact the service and safety in a negative way. Poor coordination processes often lead to failure in transmitting the information of the critical patient’s information.

 

Mobile Integrated Healthcare: An Emerging Model

This model has been for some time but was not implemented effectively. The success of such models relies on the efficiency achieved after using it. This model provides numerous benefits and essential solutions such as improving care transitions, managing high-risk patients, and reducing unplanned circumstances of care required. Earlier when emergencies make themselves visible the whole team is not well interconnected and the stakes are high in such situations.

The capacity to coordinate multiple patients with their unique problems and provide them regular care from disconnected providers.

With the use of this model, the patient data can be monitored more precisely than ever from a distance. Often most communities have an EMS (Emergency Management Services ) which provides various services.

1.      Receiving incoming requests from emergency services and online ordering services.

2.      Using a validated physician to prioritize requests in order to ensure that the resources are dispatched according to the degree of urgency within minutes for emergencies and urgent needs.

3.      Matching the resources to the patient’s requirements.

4.      Ensuring the system status and staff support for appropriate and efficient utilization of the system.

5.      Tracking resources in real-time, 24/7, to ensure the resources can be availed safely to different geographical domains while maintaining an adequate supply of resources.

 

The Community EMS system is helpful in managing, prioritizing, and scheduling the clinical requests as well as tracking community health resources and making sure that it is available for all. The Home care services are a good initiative provided by many communities.

It makes it an ideal partner for researching new technologies to ensure that chronically ill patients are safe and are taken care of appropriately.

The concept of Mobile Integrated Healthcare and community EMS has emerged as a reliable framework capable of managing complex and sophisticated medical care facilities. Using a broad network of professionals and resources including volunteers, community healthcare workers, nurses, social workers this program addresses wellness and aims at prevention of chronically ill patients for a local population.