Care Coordination/Care Management

Care coordination facilitates the appropriate delivery of health care services by integrating care activities across multiple providers who are dependent upon each other to carry out disparate activities in a single patient’s care. Every participant requires adequate knowledge about his/her own and others’ roles, as well as about available resources, and must rely on the exchange of information to acquire this knowledge.  Care coordination involves entities such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and Medical/Health Homes; communication and sharing of information between and among providers; treatment, discharge, and transfer planning; and disease management.