Our thoughts on all things electronic case management.
The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the ongoing quality improvement for tribal, state, local, and territorial public health departments. PHAB is behind the development and supervision of the Public Health Accreditation process.
Case management in hospitals and health care delivery systems represent a large range of services and diverse methods of organizational structure. The concept of case management conveys various meanings to individuals and organizations.
A new feature we rolled out recently to UnaCasePro is called ‘Family Tree’. While not a new concept, we developed it in a way that is easy to use and understand.
Targeted Case Management (TCM) is consists of services that assist eligible beneficiaries in securing medical, social, educational and other health services necessary to appropriate care and treatment. Case management is not directly connected with providing the care and services, but instead is a separate and reimbursable type of service under Medicaid that for specific beneficiaries, identifies the appropriate services, assists in locating those services, identifies providers, and monitors the provision of care.
Tuberculosis (TB) has managed to reach the same ranking as HIV as one of the leading infectious disease cause of death worldwide and incurs a global economic burden of over $12 billion annually. Directly observed therapy (DOT) recommends that TB patients complete the course of treatment under direct observation of treatment support who’s been trained and overseen by health services to ensure that patients are taking their drugs as instructed too. Though the current WHO End TB Strategy does not mention DOT, only “supportive treatment supervision by treatment partners”, many TB programs still utilize it even though it has not been demonstrated to be statistically significantly superior to self-administered treatment in making sure treatment success or cure.