HRA is a software solution designed to facilitate Annual Wellness Visit to encourage individuals to take an active role in accurately assessing and managing their health, and consequently improve their well-being and quality of life. The annual wellness visit includes reviewing patient medical history, preventive medical screening schedule and personalize medical plan to promote healthy lifestyle. The approach refocusing on an individual’s active role in health care is accomplished by evaluating beneficiaries’ current health and wellness behaviors, followed by advice and counsel on ways to become healthier and remain healthy for as long as possible. The tools available to the practitioner to accomplish this purpose include administering an easy-to-use HRA with feedback, along with providing credible information, advice, resources, and support that will raise patients’ awareness of their individual health issues, promote self-reliance and self-care, prompt active decision-making, and increase confidence to manage one’s health. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention: A Framework for Patient-Centered Health Risk Assessments)
Published in Chapter:
New Payment Models and Big Data Analytics
Avnish Rastogi (Oracle Corp, USA)
Copyright: © 2014
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch145
Abstract
It has been fascinating to watch how American healthcare delivery system is going through a paradigm shift to meet new government mandates and bend the care delivery cost curve. For years, US health care system has been fragmented and falling short on quality, outcomes, costs, and lacking framework to support care continuum. According to the study conducted by National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, for many years, US population has been dying at the younger age than population with similar characteristics in other countries such as Canada, Australia and Japan. When compared with the peer countries, US Population did worse in health areas such as drug related deaths, obesity, chronic diseases, disability, etc. (Institute of Medicine of the National Academics. 2013 in, U.S Health in International Perspective Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.)