Report Released by AARP: Chronic Care: A Call to Action for Health Reform
The AARP on Monday released a report “Chronic Care: A Call to Action for Health Reform,” which details the state of chronic care and offers recommendations for improving care for the chronically ill as part of comprehensive health reform. The AARP report makes several recommendations for policy changes to improve care for the chronically ill, including:
- Increasing the use of health information technology so that doctors, patients and caregivers have the information they need, when they need it;
- Expanding testing of care delivery models to find out what works and including best practices for chronic disease care in training for doctors and other health professionals;
- Making innovative changes to payment policy to encourage better performance and outcomes; and
- Making preventive care and medications more affordable to avoid preventable chronic diseases altogether and to better treat those that do occur.
<submitted by T. Bardyn>
