Madan and his co-founder Karan Singh also pointed out that current health care legislation is putting a greater emphasis on the "proactive" care that Ginger.io supports.
Proactive care participants who choose telephone care receive VA telephone counseling and access to pharmacotherapy.
Proactive care participants who choose face-to-face care are referred to their VA facility's smoking cessation clinic.
Proactive care participants who chose face-to-face care receive the same care as usual care participants who are referred by their VHA provider.
Proactive care through the invitation letter and brochure, outreach call and telephone care cessation services is expected to largely address provider and psychosocial barriers to initiating care.
In fact, they are grounded in common-sense principles that have been talked about for decades, such as sensible standardization of care processes, better coordination of care, more proactive care for high-risk populations, and more careful medical decision making.
Never has the need for focused, proactive care to improve outcomes and avoid unnecessary hospital days been greater.
For instance, Massachusetts General Hospital identified cohorts of high-risk patients and developed a proactive care-management program around this population.
Patients such as this are well known to services and have frequent contact, thus enabling proactive care.
Dr Maggie Keeble, clinical lead, proactive care, for South Worcestershire clinical commissioning group, which is currently planning its own multidisciplinary teams, says GPs can benefit from greater team-working.
Children who received proactive care also had fewer visits to the emergency room for their asthma and less speech-limiting wheezing than children who did not.
