As recognition has grown that community, employment, and other factors play a significant role in the condition of one’s health, leaders in the health industry have collaborated to identify areas in which legislative and regulatory action will enable targeted, effective care specifically to high-need patients, those individuals with multiple chronic conditions who account for a significant share of the nation’s health spending. The comprehensive set of solutions illustrates how deeply intertwined social determinants and healthcare outcomes are, and the impact that can be achieved by addressing the former.
The framework is presented in Optimizing Healthcare for High-Need Patients: A Playbook. The publication represents the unified views of hospitals, academic health centers, health plans, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, laboratories, biotech firms, health product distributors, post-acute care providers, home care providers and information technology companies
