Is It The Silo?

Why doesn’t integrated care work well in practice? Yes, there are many integrated care pilot projects that deliver various types of positive outcomes. But when you look at the majority of consumers, their care doesn’t approach the ideal of whole person care.

Based on my many discussions with health care executives, there are a host of reasons why that’s the case. There is the data issue. Interoperability remains a challenge—electronic sharing of consumer data is not occurring at any scale (see The Information Connections To Make Whole Person Care Work and Progress On The Path To . . .