Management of Chronic Disease

Our current health system presents multiple challenges to effective and efficient care of chronically ill patients. First, the fragmented nature of our system means patients have multiple care providers who dont communicate with each other, and are not individually or collectively responsible for patients whole care. Second, health care is centered around care in a doctors office or hospital, while evidence shows the overwhelming proportion of the care needed by chronically ill patients is self-administered.1 Third, our predominant provider payment systems reward high-cost medical interventions over higher-value primary care; they reward volume of care over quality of care. Fourth, the trend toward patients assuming higher burdens of cost sharing (i.e. deductibles and co-pays) in the predominant health insurance market creates disincentives to patient utilization of chronic disease diagnosis and treatment services that contribute to effective disease management and cost control.

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[dahlialovesims]

look at that... most financial burden came from health sectors but I noticed that only a few is viewing videos related to this stuff...I'm posting this to my facebook account... For awareness's sake.