Strategies are needed to engage hospitals in chronic-care innovations. Read more about the business case for chronic care in the acute-care setting (PDF link).
The Medicare Innovations Collaborative (Med-IC) seeks to advocate and effect changes in healthcare policy by focusing on efforts to improve healthcare delivery for complex multimorbid adults in the inpatient setting. This will be accomplished through an ongoing collaboration with policymakers, government officials, hospital administrators, physicians, and researchers.
One of our early priorities is to organize a small group of hospitals and health systems capable of implementing acute and transitional care solutions for Medicare patients with multiple chronic illnesses. These learning "laboratories" will ultimately result in a geriatric line of service — a portfolio of innovative models of care — that will inform the larger and longer-term debate on healthcare policy and will have immediate and positive impact on hospitals and the older adults for whom they care.
Med-IC is currently working with six health systems to test one or more innovative programs designed to improve care for Medicare patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Med-IC is spearheaded by national leaders in geriatric medicine and is funded through a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies. We invite hospitals and health systems looking to transform care of older patients to join us in our mission.
MedIC Profiled in HealthLeaders Magazine. PIs Dr. Al Siu and Dr. Bruce Leff and MedIC participant leaders from Carolinas HealthCare System and Aurora Health Care are interviewed. Read more.
Reducing Hospital Readmissions: The New York Times talks with Dr. Eric Coleman about how his Care Transitions Intervention, a MedIC model of care, can help. Read more.
HELP: Dr. Sharon Inouye presents her Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), a MedIC model, in “Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly.” Read more.
House Calls: MedIC co-principal investigator Bruce Leff, MD, explains their value in the New York Times. Read more.
Geisinger in the News: MedIC participant Geisinger Health System shows new models of care can help older patients with chronic disease. Read more.