We suggest that a new model for episodic care is needed that provides funding for an entire episode of care.
Many persons with chronic conditions receive uncoordinated, episodic care.
Emergency staff members have a unique role in providing episodic care to marginalized populations.
"We cannot solve the health problems of society unless we change our focus from acute, episodic care to health promotion and wellness — lifestyle medicine," he said.
Significantly improved patient care by changing the focus from reactive, acute episodic care to proactive management of health, wellness, and chronic disease.
Current health systems were designed to provide discrete episodic care to patients in locations like hospitals, and paid based on the volume of services provided (fee-for-service).
In some settings, NPs serve as primary care providers delivering ongoing continuous care to their patients, referred to as patient panels, whereas in other settings they deliver episodic care.
Observing the care, I began to grasp how the commitment to seeing people over time leads primary-care clinicians to take an approach to problem-solving that is very different from that of doctors, like me, who provide mainly episodic care.
The counterbalance may lie in the report's support for gradually ending the funding of episodic care through the Payment by Results system, and replacing it with contracts based on a 'capitated payment' which provides for the whole of a person's care.
Healthcare Worker Feedback on a Prototype Smartphone-based Point-of-care Test Platform for Use in Episodic Care.
These savings are contingent upon transition of care away from hospital-based episodic care models to primary and long-term care based managed care models.
