Cross-continuum Care Continuity: Achieving Seamless Care and Managing Comorbidities
As healthcare systems continue to design care models responsive to payment changes and the assumption of clinical and financial risk, the need exists for a comprehensive approach to address cross-continuum care transitions. This article will highlight key learnings from the Nurse Executive Center's research on achieving care continuity. The business case for developing a cross-continuum care transition strategy will be discussed, as well as systemic enablers for the achievement of seamless care. A case study example of 1 system's solution for supporting the multiple comorbid patient population as part of its cross-continuum care transition strategy will be examined.
By following the discussions on homogeneous coexistence in the previous chapter, we continue investigating this issue in this chapter, but in a slightly-different network environment where the available spectrum is insufficient to satisfy the QoS requirements of multiple CR networks and they may have to share a single TVWS channel. When multiple co-located CR networks operate in the same swath of white-space (or unlicensed) spectrum with little or no direct coordination, co-channel self-coexistence is a challenging problem.