topic: Triple Aim and Healthier Data
A Health Care Data Revolution – The Case for Data Visualization By Mark Jahn
With data volumes increasing exponentially, health care can no longer rely on antiquated data presentation tools like spreadsheets and tables. What’s needed are new and creative means of data visualization to help users more effectively determine findings and trends, communicate analytical results, and make better business decisions.
Getting your “Value-Based Care House” in Order by Embracing Primary Care By Sylvia Dochterman
Many primary care strategies fall short because health systems focus on the old “heads in beds” mentality. Instead, with value-based care, we need primary care to keep patients out of the hospital.
Improve Clinical Interactions to Increase Patient Engagement and Bottom Line Results
It is easy to picture an internist lamenting his patients’ seeming inability to improve their health by making better lifestyle choices: “If I could just get some of my patients to eat less, exercise more and quit smoking, they’d have a much greater quality of life and need to see me far less.”
ACOs: Implementing and Sustaining Value-Based Change By Bob Wadsworth
As seen in Health Intelligence Network. Just as “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” neither is an efficient, sustainable, and physician-focused accountable care organization (ACO). Instead, expect to embrace a stair-step approach to making the necessary changes in your care delivery and administrative practices. Competency and capability development is always multi-dimensional, so consider these five steps as a benchmark for your organization’s critical thinking on ACO development. Introduction In California, we’re now in what could be termed the “second generation”...
Understanding Patient Experience: Best Practices and Lessons from HCAHPS Successes
Patient experience has become a major factor in health care — and for good reason. Not only is patient experience (aka patient satisfaction) now directly tied to reimbursement, but as the health care marketplace becomes more competitive via partnerships, mergers and new entrants, patients — many of whom are paying higher deductibles —are increasingly noting the value and service they receive in their health care delivery. As a result, health care, like other industries, is becoming more consumer-centric. Providers must respond accordingly. Some health care organizations are basing...
Making the Most of Population Health Efforts
There’s a business maxim that says: "what gets rewarded gets repeated." What gets rewarded also gets people's attention, such as last year's historic HHS announcement that by the end of 2018 it would like an ambitious 90% of traditional Medicare payments transformed into value-based reimbursement, through accountable care organizations, bundled payments or hospital quality programs. As recently as 2011, Medicare made almost no payments through alternative payment models. For providers, if population health wasn’t already a strategic mandate,...
3 Ways Disrupting Healthcare Silos Helps Achieve Triple Aim Goals By Kam Reams & Alan Little
As seen in Becker’s Hospital Review. The Triple Aim is the backbone of healthcare reform; however, there are barriers to effective system-wide change that must be addressed before we can seize opportunities for improving the health of individuals and populations while reducing costs. Long-standing operational silos make realizing positive reform an extremely difficult endeavor. By addressing these silos and transforming the existing model of healthcare delivery, we can begin to realize the objectives of the Triple Aim. The Silo Mentality A...
Triple Aim and Healthier Data: Envisioning a Better Healthcare System
In 2015, more attention will be given to improving the patient care experience, managing population health, and reducing the costs of healthcare. The simultaneous pursuit of these is defined by the Triple Aim, which underlies most of the programs and initiatives in which healthcare organizations are involved. The improved quality and availability of electronic data will help bring these goals closer to reality. We see organizations joining more accountable care initiatives, identifying and eliminating waste, and putting greater focus on...