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51. What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Care Coordination Models Make a Difference in People's Health

jeff and his team at the camden coalition wanted to rigorously test their care coordination model, which had come to be known as health care hot spotting. The term borrows from a policing strategy where data is used to identify geographic locations that are hot spots for crime. In this case, the coalition was using data to identify patients who were heavy users of the health cure system,. Then develop a specially tailored program to meet their needs and prevent them from going back to hospital.

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