A better way to deliver comprehensive care

Various stakeholders and policymakers have an urgent need to bring healthcare costs under control while overcoming many other challenges they face, including legislative reform, changing expectations and decreased funding. To overcome these challenges, they are seeking new, outcome-based service delivery models that can help them lower spending and drive more sustainable outcomes for individuals and families through a more personalized and patient-centered approach to care. This paper describes how IBM’s Care Management solution achieves a holistic understanding of an individual’s needs by taking into consideration the determinants of health that span biological, social and psychological domains, and then generates comprehensive care plans that bring unprecedented insight and opportunities for action to communities of care.