Care coordination is essential to improving a fragmented health care system. Value-based payment models such as accountable care organizations and bundled payments encourage providers to coordinate ...

Data from a national survey of Veterans Health Administration specialists indicate that referral templates may improve the appropriateness, clarity, and completeness of primary care–specialty care ...

Enhancing coordination of care has the potential to increase the value of heart failure care. Objectives: Although coordination of care has become the main focus of health care reform efforts to ...