Health Access Solutions regularly collaborates with industry experts to explore the issues facing US healthcare. Below you will find position papers discussing a wide variety of current topics surrounding coordinated care.

The Emergence of Coordinated Care
This paper, authored by the executive leadership of Health Access Solutions, explores the benefits of patient-centric, coordinated care. The authors discuss the necessity of health information technology systems that are able not only to digitize and exchange health data, but also to facilitate and enable the collaboration of the entire care team, including specialists, primary care physicians, health plans and, most importantly, the patient.

Streamlining the Business of Caring
The business and financial side of care often takes a backseat to elaborately designed clinical models. Authored by Wayne Pan, PhD, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer of the Individual Practice Association Medical Group of Santa Clara County (SCCIPA), this position paper focuses specifically on referrals, and case and utilization management. Dr. Pan discusses why these pieces of the healthcare puzzle will become more complex with the advent of models such as the Accountable Care Organization and how IT solutions can streamline the business of caring.

Multidisciplinary Clinical Integration for Genuine Care Coordination
Daniel Morreale, Vice President of IT Strategy at the Center for Healthcare Information Technology, authors this paper focused on bridging the gaps of multidisciplinary care coordination. Morreale finds that, in order to succeed in reducing costs and increasing quality, coordinated care requires a solution several steps ahead of existing technologies such the EHR and HIE.