The Benefits of Clinical Integration

what a connected community can accomplish

Better care that’s easier and more efficient to deliver, recognized by the community and insurers, and leading to better reimbursement to physicians for providing a better product. That’s the overarching benefit of Clinical Integration.

But there are a host of more specific benefits, including these:

• having the most complete history of medical care available for your patient—at the time you first see him or her

• electronic tools to streamline common tasks: maintaining and accessing patient records, referrals, admissions, disease registries, prescriptions, etc.

• ability to ease into new IT systems with minimal disruption to existing office systems and protocols

• gaining IT equipment necessary to link to centralized information, at no cost (GRIPA will be providing a laptop or tablet to participating physicians)

• recruiting physicians to area and network

• reduced medical errors

• improved patient outcomes & satisfaction

• more efficient provision of care

• assistance in monitoring patient compliance

• enhanced quality of patient-physician relationships

• easy access to “best practice” Clinical Care Guidelines, community disease programs, case management programs

• ability to create our own Clinical Guidelines and monitor members for compliance

• ability to sell our combined services to insurers and other payors

• assistance—both medical and technology—to succeed in pay-for-performance and incentive programs

• the support necessary to keep independent physician practices in business, providing a competitive alternative to employed physician model

• recognition in the community as a physician practice network based on technology, innovation and extraordinary quality of care

• access to additional education and training as needed to meet higher patient outcome goals

• a higher degree of interdependence, cooperation, and seamless care among primary care physicians, specialty care physicians and other providers, such as hospitals, labs, radiologists