Home Telehealth and The Triple Aim

Literature Review: The Triple Aim and Home Telehealth for Patients with Chronic Diseases I. Introduction

The United States’ health care system is currently undergoing the most dramatic transformation since the creation of Medicare. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) set to occur within the coming months, there continues to be a quest to seek out how to do more in ways that will utilize our limited resources more efficiently. A central element of the ACA is the Triple Aim, whi...

The AAN and the triple aim.

Consultation psychiatry in the medical home and accountable care organizations: achieving the triple aim.

We are in a time of increasing concern about unsustainable increases in health care costs to Medicare, Medicaid, employers and individuals. At the same time, more than half of patients with mental health needs do not receive care in any given year [1], and untreated mental disorders can be important drivers of high health care costs. As in the rest of health care, we are challenged with achievi...

The triple aim: care, health, and cost.

Improving the U.S. health care system requires simultaneous pursuit of three aims: improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs of health care. Preconditions for this include the enrollment of an identified population, a commitment to universality for its members, and the existence of an organization (an "integrator") that accepts responsi...

Home Telehealth: Connecting Care Within The Community

At first glance this book is a collection of chapters about a somewhat obscure subject with the usual balance between offerings of excellence and those with impenetrable prose. On closer inspection however this is a deeply subversive book which attempts to undermine the " twin towers " of healthcare in the industrialised world: that hospitals are veritable temples of healing and that community ...