What skill sets are required by partners wishing to implement SCCMS?
There are two general options: intramural and extramural. Under the intramural option, partners’ staff provides telephone triage and followup. Nurse care managers and a supervising cardiologist are required to implement the system. An IT specialist is needed to emulate SCCMS on the partner’s existing electronic medical record. A supervising physician, which could be the supervising cardiologist, is needed to evaluate the clinical outcomes and costs of implementing SCCMS and represent the program to administrators responsible for resource allocation. An assistant is needed to provide educational materials to patients and families, and interact with patients at specified intervals by telephone or email regarding clinical outcomes and patients’ satisfaction with SCCMS. Under the extramural option, all functions of patient enrollment, intervention, followup with medical and nursing staff are provided by Stanford personnel and periodic reports on project costs and clinical outcomes are crea
