Features of the Coming “Care Management System”

Back in May I wrote about the Care Management System being the next big purchase for healthcare in the same trend as PM/HIS, EHR, and now a care management system. The biggest feature of the care management system is that it would have the patient at the center. The more I talk with people, the more I think this vision of a patient centered platform is the future of healthcare.

I was also pleased the Sandeep Puri from Patientriciti is working to build such a platform. In fact, he’s outlined the 5 attributes of a robust Care Management System:

  1. Personalization
  2. Behavior Change
  3. Ease of Use for Providers
  4. HIPAA Compliant
  5. Scalability

He also outlined the 10 capabilities of a Care Management system:

  1. Patient Data Intake
  2. User and Role Management
  3. Targeting Analytics
  4. Program Development
  5. Program Administration
  6. Response Analytics
  7. Survey Analytics and Alerts Management
  8. Rewards Management
  9. Care Manager Dashboard and Workflow Tool
  10. Backward Integration of patient-generated data

I think these lists might complicate things a little bit when trying to communicate what the care management system should accomplish. However, I love that people like Sandeep are thinking deeply about what they’re working to accomplish. Plus, I’m really happy he’s sharing these perspectives with the world so that we can all work to refine them and make healthcare better.

What do you think of the concept of a care management system? How about the way Sandeep has laid it out? What would a patient centered platform look like to you?

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John Lynn

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2 Comments

  • The ten points outlined above, and as nearly as I can tell, 100% of the discussion of the CMS concept, has NOTHING TO DO WITH PATIENT CARE. You can’t say the patient is in the center when the only patient-related item in the entire post is ‘patient data intake.’

    It is a systems and information management system. It will not improve care.

    The emperor must be getting cold, walking around buck naked like this.

  • I like the structure. I think a good reference for this platform that adds the necessary human care manager element is describe at http://www.CareCliques.com There is a convergence of classic care management, consumer apps and population health into a new model of care management or what may be better described as Population Health Management. So many buzz words so little clarity. But I do like the concept and agree with it fully.

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