Habilitative Medicine

When preventive care is combined with traditional, curative care, patients are healthier and patient outcomes are improved. Since chronic conditions drive over 75% of health care spending, it is critical that patients become more engaged in their own healthcare. As clinicians trained in this approach empower patients to proactively manage their health, overall quality of life will be enhanced and healthcare costs as a whole will decrease.

What does a Habilitative Medicine approach look like:

• Proactive, preventive care combined with traditional care
  
• Evidence-based care consistently provided by caregivers and physicians
  
• Patients engaged in their own care

• Behavior change techniques / health coaching
• Clinical pathways to decrease variability of care
  
• Transitional care to improve communication when moving from one provider to another (such as Hospital to Home)
  
• Technology to facilitate effective sharing of information between providers
• Clinical decision support at the point of care
• Telehealth or telemonitoring
  

• Decreased hospitalization rates
• Decreased cost of care across the continuum
• Happier and healthier patients