1. Creating Safety Systems in Health Care Organizations - To Err is Human
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Safety systems in health care organizations seek to prevent harm to patients, their families and friends, health care professionals, contract-service workers, volunteers, and the many other individuals whose activities bring them into a health care setting. Safety is one aspect of quality, where quality includes not only avoiding preventable harm, but also making appropriate care available—providing effective services to those who could benefit from them and not providing ineffective or harmful services. 2
2. Patient safety - World Health Organization (WHO)
Sep 11, 2023 · Investing in patient safety positively impacts health outcomes, reduces costs related to patient harm, improves system efficiency, and helps in ...
WHO fact sheet on patient safety, including key facts, common sources of patient harm, factors leading to patient harm, system approach to patient safety, and WHO response.
3. [PDF] Key Ingredients for Successful Trauma-Informed Care Implementation
Patients who have experienced trauma can benefit from emerging best practices in trauma-informed care. These practices involve both organizational and clinical ...
4. Patient expectations and the paradigm shift of care in emergency medicine
This paper discusses patients expectations and proposes implementation of elements of patient-centered care and value-based care into our existing health care ...
Patient expectation in health care continues to increase and this is something that needs to be managed adequately in order to improve outcomes and decrease liability. Understanding patients’ expectations can enhance their satisfaction level. ...
5. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care - Harvard Business Review
We must shift the focus from the volume and profitability of services provided—physician visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and tests—to the patient outcomes ...
Reprint: R1310B In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried countless incremental fixes—attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better “consumers,” implementing electronic medical records—but none have had much impact. It’s time for a fundamentally new strategy. At its core is maximizing value for patients: that is, achieving the best outcomes at the lowest cost. We must move away from a supply-driven health care system organized around what physicians do and toward a patient-centered system organized around what patients need. We must shift the focus from the volume and profitability of services provided—physician visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and tests—to the patient outcomes achieved. And we must replace today’s fragmented system, in which every local provider offers a full range of services, with a system in which services for particular medical conditions are concentrated in health-delivery organizations and in the right locations to deliver high-value care. The strategy for moving to a high-value health care delivery system comprises six interdependent components: organizing around patients’ medical conditions rather than physicians’ medical specialties, measuring costs and outcomes for each patient, developing bundled prices for the full care cycle, integrating care across separate facilities, expanding geographic reach, and building an enabling IT platform. The transformation to value-based health care is well under way. Some organizations, such as the Cleveland Clinic and Germany’s Schön Klinik, have undertaken large-scale changes involving multiple components of the value agenda. The result has been striking improvements in outcomes and efficiency, and growth in market share.
6. Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and Answers | KFF
Apr 21, 2023 · Addressing health disparities is not only important from an equity standpoint, but also for improving the nation's overall health and economic ...
Disparities in health and health care for people of color and underserved groups are longstanding challenges. This brief provides an introduction to what health and health care disparities are, why it is important to address disparities, the status of disparities today, recent federal actions to address disparities, and key issues related to addressing disparities looking ahead.
7. Addressing Commercial Health Plan Challenges to Ensure Fair ...
Nov 1, 2022 · The report concludes by offering policymakers solutions to reduce the risk and burden of these programs while still enabling health insurance ...
This report documents the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) findings related specifically to prior authorization and payment delays and denials. This work is informed by two large surveys of hospitals, as well as interviews and group discussions with hundreds of hospital and health system leaders.
8. Section 4: Ways To Approach the Quality Improvement Process (Page ...
Page 1 of Section 4 of the CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide discusses the concept of microsystems in the context of improving patient experience and ...
Page 1 of Section 4 of the CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide discusses the concept of microsystems in the context of improving patient experience and provides an overview of the quality improvement process.
9. [PDF] Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Hospital and Outpatient ... - ASPE
May 1, 2022 · * These data are a combination of three main sources: 1) HHS TeleTracking, 2) HHS Protect, and 3) National Health care Safety Network. There ...
10. CMS' Value-Based Programs
Sep 6, 2023 · Value-based programs reward health care providers with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to people with Medicare. These ...
What are the value-based programs? Value-based programs reward health care providers with incentive payments for the quality of care they give to people with Medicare. These programs are part of our larger quality strategy to reform how health care is delivered and paid for. Value-based programs also support our three-part aim:
11. In a Shifting Market, Medicare Advantage Shows Continued Growth
Mar 23, 2023 · The competitive complexity and changes have far-reaching implications not only for the health plans that serve these members directly but also ...
Medicare Advantage growth persists, and while we anticipate this trend to continue broadly for years to come, 2023 marked very important shifts that have implications for healthcare organizations.
12. [PDF] Quality improvement made simple - The Health Foundation
How can we improve quality? A long-term, integrated whole-system approach is needed to ensure sustained improvements in health care quality. Several ...
13. What are the advantages of electronic health records? | HealthIT.gov
Mar 8, 2022 · Reducing costs through decreased paperwork, improved safety, reduced duplication of testing, and improved health. Take the First Step: Contact ...
Electronic Health Records are the first step to better health care. Learn more about the benefits of electronic health records.