Making Collaborative Care Work

What does it take to make collaborative care work? According to a new briefing, An Enterprise Approach To Unifying Health Care, there are five key principles to take into account. A patient-centered care team is at the core—collaborative, shared care-plans that incorporate patient goals. Provider organizations need to adopt population-based care (consumers are tracked in a registry) and evidence-based care planning (prioritizing evidence-based tools with the latest information). At the clinician level, measurement-based treatment to target is critical. Finally, there is provider accountability—with provider organizations reimbursed for the quality of care and . . .