Why ‘Total Health Care’ For Individuals Is 2017’s Biggest Story

The biggest trend of 2017 is far from new, but the continued industry movement for providing “total health care” for individuals—including integration, community-based care, and long-term services and supports (LTSS)—as one of the prime industry stories of the year.  This incremental movement is demanding a very simple (but hard to achieve) strategy—as providers, in the very near future, we need to be part of systems of care that treat the whole individual.

This means that we will need to be able to coordinate total health care or be part of the team that is delivering . . .