Cerner Integrated Health Care Solutions
Health Care Entities Involved in Joey’s Continuum of Care
The Cerner Integrated Health Care Solutions has put in place a vision showing much concern for patients. The vision is to achieve an integrated health care solution for all services offered to Joey. Joey is a sixteen-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. The latter is stated to be a mental disorder that costs the United States approximately sixty-three billion dollars annually. Cerner medical health center has a focus on applying an integrated health system that will meet him wherever he is and despite living with the condition of disorder, he is given a chance to maintain a high quality of stable living at a sustainable cost, this is precisely the aspect needed in a continuum of care. The health center has put in place some entities that enable it to achieve this aspect of care. The continuum of care begins after health risk identification at infancy, where the health institution launches an individualized plan of care. This form of care include the prescriptive services in childhood, after becoming a student, the school provider identifies his behavioral issues, such as distress, aggression, intolerance, inappropriate boundaries, social isolation and difficulty following direction. In a follow-up, Joey and his family are enrolled in a self-guided cognitive behavioral therapy program, where they are provided with financial counseling to predict the costs of care and knowledge on the value of following the care plan. The use of mobile therapeutic apps also helps Joey handle this condition on his own. However, when the condition gets worse he is moved from preventive services care to active treatment, where he is admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility for more intensive care. After discharge from the hospital, his transition of care records is automatically transmitted to his next care provider, from where he gains support as he gains his optimal functionality, (305).
Information Needs and Challenges Involved in Capturing and Utilizing the Information
In order to address Joey's case efficiently, his comprehensive health information is needed. This is information is needed by the health care providers to get a better understanding of Joey’s mental disorder condition. However, the procedures used in capturing this information may not be possible with some of the care providers. Additionally, another challenge is how to use this information in care provision. In the bid to effectively address Joey’s case, it is essential to provide data-driven holistic preventive and supportive services. Some of the key information needed is his condition at infancy and the mother's condition. Other information needed is the symptoms he portrays while at school, in this case, the information is passed to the manager through his longitudinal record. More so, information on his history of genetic predisposition, which keeps his care team prepared at the beginning of schizophrenic episodes. Other information includes his progress, which makes him admitted, and after a while discharged from the health, care with this information been transferred automatically to the next care providers. His health progress is under the constant monitor to recognize and support him through his breaks and breakers in the journey to gaining independent life. The purpose of this data is to ensure support and assessment of the integrated health care system when addressing chronic diseases. This makes the health care provides capable to access the knowledge and resources they need, to provide the most appropriate care for Joey’s needs. However, there is a challenge in capturing the information needed in the care, where most of the health care institutions lack the skill of data collection or the right instruments to be used in the process. Alternatively, a health care institution might have the right resources but lack expertise capable to make good use of the available information in the provision of the best health care services, (309).
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