Biomedical subjects

J W Edson

Publications and source records attributed to J W Edson.

2 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

Trials and tribulations of year one: initiating cross-continuum care management in a community-based hospital.

To prepare to enter the Last Great Race, the Iditarod, you need a great team with experience, dedication, training, sponsorship, and the ability to work towards the desired goal. Planning a cross-continuum care management system is equally challenging. In this article, we present a real-life example of how a community-based hospital system has begun to integrate existing case management and care coordination efforts into a unified approach to care management. This scenario challenges organizations developing, refining, and evaluating care management efforts to think about what is being done, how, and why.

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PubMed1998

Using case management data to drive organizational decisions.

Case managers armed with timely, organized, accurate, and meaningful data are powerful influencers and key decision makers. Case managers are in a unique position to use data to shape health care services, systems, and organizational strategy. They know the customers (internally and externally). They know why the organization gets and loses business. They know what the organization does well and what could use improvement. Most important, they know how well the organization is doing in managing the daily flow of financial resources. Case managers, coupled with health information support personnel, are exceptionally valuable corporate assets.

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