The final delivery systems principles identified and reviewed by the meeting participants follow:
Coordinate delivery across all spectrums of care.
Individuals are desperately in need of support systems that are interconnected and accessible. Health must be understood across the spectrum, focusing on wellness and not on sickness. From prevention to acute care, and from primary care to specialty care, existing systems must be coordinated. Not only will coordination allow better flow of information and lower costs, but it will also provide much needed accountability.
To coordinate care, we must:
- Resolve provider workforce issues with energy and creativity
- Provide education that encourages accountability among providers and patients
- Create a feedback loop to assess the effectiveness of both financial and behavioral incentives to improve delivery systems
- Create standards for health information to be safely shared between providers and patients and among providers
- Use health information technology to improve access to information and balance privacy and confidentiality of data
Please share your real-life examples of these principles in the comments section below or email them to healthreform@geneticalliance.org.
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