Duplicative Care: A Case Study

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“Utilize technology to reduce duplicative care, and increase the use of evidence-based care, exchange data, and coordinate care” is one of the ways listed by Kocher to improve healthcare (Kocher, 2016). Technology that is shared between the primary care, specialist, hospital, nursing home, and home care could effectively be used to coordinate care. An example of this could be that if a nursing home has already performed a MRSA screen and determined the patient is a carrier, the hospital if the information is shared through an electronic medical record, does not have to repeat the test and can take the appropriate precautions for isolation of patient.
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