A Report on Collaborative Practice in Healthcare Case Management

This report examines collaborative practice in healthcare case management, emphasizing the importance of collaboration among healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers. It explores strategies for improving patient outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and addressing challenges in care coordination. The discussion highlights the benefits of collaborative teams, technology integration, and interprofessional education. The analysis focuses on the role of case managers in facilitating communication and navigating complex healthcare systems, including reducing hospital readmissions. The report also addresses challenges like data sharing and work relationships. The conclusion emphasizes the value of collaborative practice for delivering high-quality, patient-centered services. References include key research on interprofessional collaboration and its impact on patient care.

Healthcare Systems
Collaborative Practice in Case Management of

Introduction
 The collaboration is a deep and a collective determination which helps
an individual to reach the objectives to work with each other. There is a
need to achieve the shared goals where the case managers always
advocate about the facilitation of the providers, payers and in instances
of employers.

Discussion
 The discussion is about the family centered case management with
improving the outcomes and effective communication. The discussion is
about maximizing the technology to improve the clinical outcomes, with
illustrating technology to improve care coordination and population
health management (Brandt, Lutfiyya, King & Chioreso, 2014). There
are ways to look forward towards reducing the admissions with
collaborative management teams.

Analysis
 The case management is effective where the strategies are for
supporting the integration and coordination of care for the patients with
the long-term conditions. The teams are coordinated and collaborative
where the home and community-based services

Discussion
 The collaboration leads to reduce duplications of health care, avoiding
gaps and reducing health care costs. It involves the continual
communication with patients, caregivers and various professionals with
services that tend to come in contact. The fundamental is to
collaborate with taking responsibility for overseeing and coordinating
and helping patients to navigate the systems.

Example
 The hospitalizations are considered to be a time where there are
different stressors related to the financial setup and the physical setup.
The range of providers and professionals where the case manager need
to retain the oversight of an individual situation. The patients and the
caregivers report that it is easy to receive a response from case
manager. The collaboration is to reduce the duplication of health care
with avoidance of gaps and then reducing the healthcare costs (Fox &
Reeves, 2015).

Challenges to Overcome
 The case management is considered to be a collaborative process with
properly planning, facilitating and care coordination that is important
for working towards the valuable sense of continuity for the patient
which is considered to be an important program. The collaboration
leads to reduce duplications of health care, avoiding gaps and reducing
health care costs. The example is related to the development of a
stronger work relationship and a data sharing agreement, so there is a
need of an effective CBO that will require to identify the needs in
hospital.

Conclusion
 The collaborative practice is to enable the healthcare providers to
deliver a higher quality, with safe person-centered services for
achieving the possible individual health outcomes. The collaborative
practices includes the development of competencies for collaborative
practice through the actions (Rider et al, 2014). The benefits are related
to improving the care by increasing the service coordination with
integrating the healthcare for a wider range of needs of health.

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