Report on Trends in Modern Healthcare: Collaboration and PCMH Analysis

This report examines key trends in modern healthcare, specifically focusing on interprofessional collaboration and the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model. The report begins by defining interprofessional collaboration as a practice that unites healthcare specialists to deliver quality patient care, emphasizing its role in reducing medical errors and fostering team-based, patient-centered care. The report also discusses the current healthcare issue of the spread of the coronavirus and highlights the need for more interprofessional collaboration to effectively manage the disease. Furthermore, the report analyzes the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, describing it as a care model where patients have a direct relationship with a primary care physician. The report explains the benefits of the PCMH model, including comprehensive, patient-centered, coordinated, accessible, and quality care, emphasizing its positive impact on patient outcomes by incorporating diverse care teams and promoting relationship-based healthcare. The report provides references to support the findings.

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Trends in Modern Healthcare
Question One
Interprofessional collaboration refers to the practice that involves coming together with a
team of healthcare specialists to deliver quality patient care. The practice is understood to reduce
medical errors in that it improves clinical communication between pharmacists, nurses and other
healthcare providers thus reducing medical errors such as overdosage and wrong prescription
(Verspuy & Van Bogaert, 2018). Also, interprofessional collaboration is an important practice in
the provision of quality care in that it encourages team-based and patient-centered care that
include primary doctor, nurse, and any other relevant team members who foster patient-centered
care thus quality care as the team members are able to consult each other and come up with the
best treatment option for the patient. Besides, practice fosters team mentality and promotes
comprehensive patient care thus increasing the safety of the patient (Reeves, 2016).
The current trend and issue that is facing health care is the spread of coronavirus.
Coronavirus disease is a respiratory virus that has shown to spread via droplets from an infected
person during coughing, sneezing or speaking. The disease has shown the ability to spread very
first and many people throughout the world have been infected by this deadly virus disease. The
disease has no cure or vaccine and has killed thousands of people thus becoming a pandemic. In
order to effectively manage the disease, there is a need for more interprofessional collaboration
within the healthcare system.
Question two
Patients-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) –It can be described as a model of care where
patients are involved in a direct relationship with a selected primary care physician. The chosen
care provider’s main functions are to manage a cooperative team of healthcare specialists and

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take collective responsibility for the provision of comprehensive integrated care to the patient
(Carter et al., 2018).
With the use of this model, the patient is able to receive care that is coordinated via their
primary care provider. The practices within the model involve the development of
transdisciplinary care teams, improvement of their coordination and their careful management of
the patients thus improving patient safety, efficiency and provision of quality care.
The use of this model plays a crucial role in patient outcomes. Firstly, through the use of the
model, the patient is able to receive comprehensive care. The model incorporates diverse teams
of care providers who may include pharmacists, nurses, physicians, care coordinators, and
nutritionists and this ensures the patient’s needs are comprehensively met.
Also, the patient is able to receive patient-centered care as the model involves the
provision of health-care that is relationship-based with an intention of partnership. The health
care provider partner with the patient, their families, and friends, respect their culture and
ensures they are fully informed about the care plans (Tanenbaum, 2015).The other merits of
using the model are that the patient is able to receive coordinated care, accessible services, and
quality and safety care services. The model involves the coordination of care across all
departments of health care systems, recommends delivery of accessible care services within a
shorter waiting time thus ensuring the patient receives effective coordinated and accessible care
services. Also, through the cooperation of the medical teams, the patient is able to gain an
advantage of quality and safety care.

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References
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delivery models and roles of navigators in primary care: a scoping literature review. BMC
health services research, 18(1), 96.
Reeves, S. (2016). Why we need interprofessional education to improve the delivery of safe and
effective care. Interface-Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, 20, 185-197.
Tanenbaum, S. J. (2015). What is patient-centered care? A typology of models and
missions. Health Care Analysis, 23(3), 272-287.
Verspuy, M., & Van Bogaert, P. (2018). Interprofessional Collaboration and Communication.
In The Organizational Context of Nursing Practice (pp. 259-278). Springer, Cham.