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.
Never has the need for focused, proactive care to improve outcomes and avoid unnecessary hospital days been greater.
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.
Further, analytics may be applied to identify the individuals who need "proactive care" or changes in their lifestyle to avoid degradation of health condition.
But Dr Martin McShane, NHS England's director of long-term conditions, said a number of steps were already being taken to "refocus the agenda" on proactive care to keep people well and save the NHS money.
Prof Gilbert said that although the overall number of children dying is falling, the picture was complicated by the increasing number of children now surviving with disabilities and serious diseases, and this meant that proactive care was vital.
But what's worse, this mode of care delivery fails to empower patients to take proactive care of their own health.
JFK challenged us not only to go to the moon, but to take proactive care of our physical fitness.
Finally, this program is based on a proactive care approach.
Less attention is paid to proactive care planning [ 5].
