Digital Health Community: Enabling the Coordination of Care

Mitchell Morris, MD, Principle, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting. Healthcare reform, Beacon funding, and changing industry dynamics are driving the need for greater coordination of care at the community level. Bundled payments, the medical home and disease management are some of the developing concepts that are driving the need for technology to link together physicians, hospitals and consumers. HIEs exchange information but do not create the governance, incentives and workflow to truly enable the digital health community. Dr. Morris and Carol present approaches and concepts to enable effective and high quality care at the community level.