Samsung Medical Center, Icheon Medical Center, Samsung Seoul U Surgery Clinic, Seoul Samsung Internal Medicine Clinic, and Chamden Internal Medicine Clinic have been validated as the world's first to achieve Stage 6 of the HIMSS Continuity of Care Maturity Model (CCMM).
The eight-stage model assesses how effectively multiple providers within a community collaborate as a team to deliver integrated, patient-centred continuity of care.
The CCMM is primarily developed to provide insights for central and local governments in their policy-making for coordinated care within a particular community and across multiple care settings.
Following their Stage 6 validation, the SMC-led network, according to Dr Rhee, now plans to implement the API-driven Proactive Integration Mechanism by 2026 to achieve "fully automated, real-time data exchange" across institutions.
It will also be refining key performance indicators to monitor the full patient journey, including no-show and discontinued cases, improving follow-up standards accordingly, and expanding partnerships to advance its continuity of care model.
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