St. Luke's Health System President and CEO Dr. David Pate's presentation to at the state of Idaho's Medicaid Managed Care Public Forum held in Boise on Dec. 13, 2011.
League Health Plan - Harmony Care Managementweatrust
Harmony Care Management provides a member-centric approach to medical management through establishing trusting relationships and taking a holistic view of members' care. It performs utilization management to ensure members receive only appropriate and cost-effective care in the right setting. For example, sleep studies done in the home may yield better results for members than those done in a sleep clinic. The document also introduces Christina Salm, a Harmony nurse with 20 years of experience across various medical fields who helps enhance the care management program.
The document discusses various payment reform models that aim to control rising health care costs while maintaining or improving quality. It describes bundled payment, global payment, and medical home models. Bundled payment sets a single payment for all services for an episode of care. Global payment provides a set monthly fee per patient. The medical home model pays providers additional fees for care coordination capabilities. Implementation challenges include determining who oversees the payments and driving delivery system transformation. Evidence suggests these models may reduce costs but their effects on quality and access require further study.
The document discusses the Obama administration's initiative to transition Medicare payments away from traditional fee-for-service models and toward alternative payment models that make providers financially responsible for quality outcomes. It argues that this transition is important for bending the health care cost curve in a politically acceptable way. The author then outlines several key success factors for providers to successfully transition to alternative payment models based on their 25 years of experience, including the robust use of accurate data, a willingness to review medical records to ensure data integrity, an ongoing commitment to changing practice patterns, and understanding how to effectively communicate the need for change to both practitioners and organizational leaders who fund health care.
League Health Plan - Reclaiming Healthcareweatrust
WEA Trust is reclaiming healthcare by focusing on providing high quality, affordable, and appropriate care for its members. This includes carefully selecting physicians and systems that provide good value, denying unnecessary or inappropriate care, working with providers to standardize care, and being smarter about healthcare spending through data analytics. The Trust also seeks to empower patients and anticipate their future needs. It aims to steward resources well by changing how hospitals are paid and reducing waste. The pharmacy department further delivers value through ensuring low net drug costs, formulary management, and specialty drug strategies that balance costs with safety.
Ed Wagner: Integrated care: what are the key factors for successNuffield Trust
Integrated care systems that coordinate care through a shared electronic medical record, common guidelines and formularies, and co-located primary and specialty care can help prevent fragmented care. However, these systems still struggle with communication failures between primary care and specialists. Truly integrated care requires personal relationships and accountability to ensure patients receive necessary services from a collaborating care team.
1. The event brought together over 100 participants from local authorities and healthcare to discuss quick wins, integrated care teams, over diagnosis, and new roles like nursing associates.
2. Quick wins discussed included web-based self-management apps for COPD patients and offering prostate hyperplasia treatments as day cases rather than inpatient surgery.
3. Key themes across discussions included the need for more patient-centered and informed consultations to avoid overdiagnosis, ensuring governance supports breaking down silos between acute and community care in integrated teams, and developing the right culture for new roles like nursing associates.
This document discusses the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model and its benefits. It provides examples of how the PCMH approach coordinates care through a team-based approach focused on managing patient populations, uses data to drive decisions and improve outcomes, and shifts care away from episodic visits to proactive health management. Studies show the PCMH approach can reduce costs through lower utilization of emergency rooms, hospitals, and specialty care while improving quality of care and patient outcomes.
League Health Plan - Harmony Care Managementweatrust
Harmony Care Management provides a member-centric approach to medical management through establishing trusting relationships and taking a holistic view of members' care. It performs utilization management to ensure members receive only appropriate and cost-effective care in the right setting. For example, sleep studies done in the home may yield better results for members than those done in a sleep clinic. The document also introduces Christina Salm, a Harmony nurse with 20 years of experience across various medical fields who helps enhance the care management program.
The document discusses various payment reform models that aim to control rising health care costs while maintaining or improving quality. It describes bundled payment, global payment, and medical home models. Bundled payment sets a single payment for all services for an episode of care. Global payment provides a set monthly fee per patient. The medical home model pays providers additional fees for care coordination capabilities. Implementation challenges include determining who oversees the payments and driving delivery system transformation. Evidence suggests these models may reduce costs but their effects on quality and access require further study.
The document discusses the Obama administration's initiative to transition Medicare payments away from traditional fee-for-service models and toward alternative payment models that make providers financially responsible for quality outcomes. It argues that this transition is important for bending the health care cost curve in a politically acceptable way. The author then outlines several key success factors for providers to successfully transition to alternative payment models based on their 25 years of experience, including the robust use of accurate data, a willingness to review medical records to ensure data integrity, an ongoing commitment to changing practice patterns, and understanding how to effectively communicate the need for change to both practitioners and organizational leaders who fund health care.
League Health Plan - Reclaiming Healthcareweatrust
WEA Trust is reclaiming healthcare by focusing on providing high quality, affordable, and appropriate care for its members. This includes carefully selecting physicians and systems that provide good value, denying unnecessary or inappropriate care, working with providers to standardize care, and being smarter about healthcare spending through data analytics. The Trust also seeks to empower patients and anticipate their future needs. It aims to steward resources well by changing how hospitals are paid and reducing waste. The pharmacy department further delivers value through ensuring low net drug costs, formulary management, and specialty drug strategies that balance costs with safety.
Ed Wagner: Integrated care: what are the key factors for successNuffield Trust
Integrated care systems that coordinate care through a shared electronic medical record, common guidelines and formularies, and co-located primary and specialty care can help prevent fragmented care. However, these systems still struggle with communication failures between primary care and specialists. Truly integrated care requires personal relationships and accountability to ensure patients receive necessary services from a collaborating care team.
1. The event brought together over 100 participants from local authorities and healthcare to discuss quick wins, integrated care teams, over diagnosis, and new roles like nursing associates.
2. Quick wins discussed included web-based self-management apps for COPD patients and offering prostate hyperplasia treatments as day cases rather than inpatient surgery.
3. Key themes across discussions included the need for more patient-centered and informed consultations to avoid overdiagnosis, ensuring governance supports breaking down silos between acute and community care in integrated teams, and developing the right culture for new roles like nursing associates.
This document discusses the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model and its benefits. It provides examples of how the PCMH approach coordinates care through a team-based approach focused on managing patient populations, uses data to drive decisions and improve outcomes, and shifts care away from episodic visits to proactive health management. Studies show the PCMH approach can reduce costs through lower utilization of emergency rooms, hospitals, and specialty care while improving quality of care and patient outcomes.
Paul Zollinger-Read: Understanding the big pictureThe King's Fund
Paul Zollinger-Read, GP and Medical Adviser and Clinical Lead on Primary Care, The King's Fund speaks on 'Understanding the big picture: how consortia can grasp early opportunities and take ownership of reforms'
This document discusses physician engagement strategies for hospitals. It begins by defining physician engagement and its importance in today's value-based healthcare system where strategies revolve around physicians. Various physician arrangement models are presented along with their degree of control and risk for the hospital. Tracking metrics for physician engagement like volume, revenue, and quality are suggested. The importance of understanding physician perspectives and culture is emphasized. Successful engagement requires functional changes like new technology as well as emotional changes like making physicians feel valued, supported and involved in decision making. Tactics discussed include dedicated physician relations resources, communication, and helping physicians with their needs rather than focusing on sales.
Collaborative care networks across the disciplinesellencrean
This document discusses collaborative care in healthcare and dentistry's role within collaborative networks for sleep medicine. It begins by defining collaboration and describing healthcare reforms pushing for improved access, quality and lower costs. This has led to initiatives like patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations. The document then discusses how collaborative care integrates behavioral/mental health into primary care. It provides examples of organizations promoting collaborative family healthcare and reviews barriers and keys to success for collaborative networks. Finally, it outlines the dentist's role in successfully participating in and establishing collaborative sleep medicine networks, including recognizing the physician's oversight and being an expert on the treatment options they provide.
Learn how a shift in processes, leadership and culture to an integrated solution can put your hospital on track to achieve improved clinical outcomes, metrics and patient experiences, each of which can have a potentially dramatic financial impact.
OPERATIONAL INTEGRATION: CREATING A HIGH-PERFORMING HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONEmCare
This document discusses operational integration in healthcare organizations. It defines operational integration as synchronizing services across an organization to provide efficient and effective patient-centered care. The key aspects of building a highly integrated organization discussed are assessing organizational culture, aligning physicians and developing leadership, eliminating waste, aligning processes across silos, clear communication, and reducing variance. An example of implementing integration strategies around patient throughput is provided. Overall the document advocates that healthcare organizations pursue operational integration to achieve the goals of improving care quality, patient experience and reducing costs.
Northwell Health is a large integrated healthcare system in New York that is implementing a population health model. It has 21 hospitals, nursing facilities, over 450 practice locations, and employs over 61,000 people including over 13,600 affiliated physicians. The system is focused on clinical care, education, research, insurance, and population health management to improve outcomes for the communities it serves.
Discovering a Common Purpose: Creating Physician EngagementHealth Catalyst
Join Dr. Bryan Oshiro, MD Chief Medical Officer, Health Catalyst , as he shares key best practices in getting physician engagement including identifying and empowering physician leaders in key functional teams, compensating for leadership roles, educating and developing a common purpose, triad teamwork approaches, giving quick, easy, and responsive access to the right data to identify problems and make recommendations, and supporting and empowering physician-led recommendations.
Attendees will learn:
The importance of physician engagement in quality improvement (the “why”)
To describe the challenges and barriers to truly have physicians lead quality improvement (“the what”)
To identify strategies to enhance physician engagement (the “how”)
Creating Physician engagement is a journey. It is a partnership that requires putting the patient first to provide the best care possible.
Please join Dr. Oshiro as he shares his experiences spanning three decades of quality improvement and clinical practice, from Loma Linda University Medical School to Intermountain Healthcare, for what will be an engaging and enlightening session.
Why is physician engagement strategically important? How can you design a strategy that is laser-focused on increasing clinical demand by ensuring your medical staff is aligned?
This presentation highlights key data, a framework for focusing your efforts with an aim statement and developing a programmatic approach to physician engagement.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an
evidence-based practice that improves
outcomes for people with severe mental
illness who are most at-risk of
■ Homelessness
■ Psychiatric hospitalization
■ Institutional recidivism
Recovery Relationships
ACT services are delivered by a
multidisciplinary team of providers who
conduct assertive outreach in the
community.
Team members develop consistent, caring,
person-centered relationships with clients.
These relationships have a positive impact
on outcomes and quality of life.
People who receive ACT services tend to
utilize fewer intensive, high-cost services
such as emergency department visits,
psychiatric crisis services, and psychiatric
hospitalization. They also experience more
independent living and higher rates of
treatment retention.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) began
over 40 years ago and has been studied widely.
Research shows that ACT has consistent, positive
effects upon individuals who have the
most severe symptoms and experience the
greatest impairment. ACT consistently
■ Reduces hospitalization
■ Increases housing stability
■ Improves quality of life
Importance of Fidelity2
Research also shows that fidelity to the ACT
model has a positive effect upon hospitalization
rates. People with mental illness who
receive services from ACT teams that achieve
higher levels of fidelity to the model tend to
experience a greater reduction in hospital days
The document discusses using analytics and care coordination to reduce hospitalizations and arrests of mental health patients. It notes that around 10% of patients are readmitted to psychiatric hospitals within 30 days of discharge. Care coordination aims to break this cycle through improved outcomes, treatment adherence, continuity of care, and identifying high-risk patients. Analytics tools can provide predictive modeling, population clustering, and care quality analysis to develop insights. The goal is to engage all stakeholders to deliver an integrated care plan through data-driven insights and coordination between providers.
Developing Innovative Payment Approaches: Finding the Path to High PerformanceNASHP HealthPolicy
This document discusses developing innovative payment approaches to improve health care performance. It notes problems with the current payment system like fragmented care and rising costs. The goal is to create incentives for care coordination and slow spending growth. Different payment methods like fee-for-service and bundled payments correspond to organizational models on a continuum from independent practices to integrated systems. The document outlines payment reforms in the Affordable Care Act like accountable care organizations and bundled payments. It emphasizes testing various models through the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to reduce costs while preserving or enhancing quality.
This document summarizes a team's work on predicting medication adherence. They analyzed data from Medicare, drug information databases, and census data to develop models with over 45 predictors of non-adherence. Key factors included public health, personal, and medication factors. Automated calls were found to increase prescription filling rates. Effective interventions need to be tailored per patient, with incentives aligned for all stakeholders to improve adherence. Regular measurement of adherence rates is important to identify best practices.
Keeping People Housed
Presentation by Richard Kruszynski, Director of Consultation and Training/Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University
An Evidenced Based Practice (EBP) is an intervention for which there is strong research (randomized clinical trials) demonstrating effectiveness in achieving positive consumer outcomes.
Studies have demonstrated positive outcomes in programs where the most common diagnoses were schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder and consumers showed substantial functional impairment.
Other studies have documented benefits for consumers with co-occurring substance abuse disorders.
Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP)
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7169
216-368-0808
The Next Wave of IT Transformation for the Aged Care SectorNapier Healthcare
The document discusses the growing aged care sector and need for IT transformation to address challenges. It notes that aged care is driving up healthcare expenditures and that care coordination and ensuring different doctors' care is coordinated are very important to patients. Transitional care programs between care settings like hospitals and nursing homes can reduce readmissions and healthcare costs. Technology can help reduce costs, medical errors, and overcrowding while improving patient engagement, compliance with medical treatments, and promoting aging in place. The company, Napier Healthcare, provides several digital solutions to help with care coordination and enabling older adults to receive care at home or in assisted living facilities.
Using technology can improve healthcare quality by addressing rising costs and moving to a value-based system. Key assumptions include unsustainable cost growth, payers prioritizing value over volume, and electronic health records (EHRs) and quality becoming standard. One health system improved diabetes care through EHR-enabled care management, standardized workflows, and enhanced patient engagement, achieving significant quality gains. EHRs alone are not sufficient and health systems must address fragmentation through coordinated, team-based care leveraging analytics across the healthcare ecosystem.
Unleashing Data: The Key To Driving Massive ImprovementsHealth Catalyst
The document discusses unleashing the power of data to drive massive improvements in healthcare outcomes. It advocates adopting a balanced approach to improvement across both the spectrum of effort (from light to high effort projects) and value (clinical, financial, patient experience). Following this balanced approach will lead to the greatest results by focusing on data infrastructure, training, and creating a data-driven culture. Examples of improvements across the spectrum are provided.
Can Revalidation Deliver What the Public Expects?IAMRAreval2015
This document discusses public expectations of regulatory revalidation of clinicians and whether revalidation can deliver on those expectations. It notes that public expectations are modest, focusing more on access to care than quality or outcomes. It also discusses different definitions of competency and the complexity of problems in healthcare. While revalidation aims to maintain competency, it has limitations as practice is continuous but revalidation is periodic. The document suggests that for revalidation to meet public expectations, it would need to take a systems approach and include organizational assessments in addition to individual assessments. It also raises the possibility of alternative approaches to evaluation that focus more on intrinsic motivation and attitudes rather than just knowledge and skills.
Physician engagement in hospital governance can improve performance but is often frustrated by lack of meaningful invitation, time constraints, and lack of relevance to physician practice. Five strategies can optimize engagement: demonstrating listening to physicians, removing obstacles to participation like unnecessary meetings, adopting a culture of openness and transparency, keeping commitments made to physicians, and providing staff and infrastructure to support physician engagement. Increased physician engagement carries some risks but risks are greater without engagement, and adopting engagement strategies can create a positive cycle of improved governance and performance.
The Beryl Institute 2013 State of the Patient Experience Benchmarking StudyEngagingPatients
This document summarizes the key findings of a survey of over 1,000 US hospitals regarding their efforts to improve the patient experience. It finds that while patient experience remains a top priority, hospitals feel somewhat less positive about their progress than two years ago. Most hospitals now have a formal definition and structure for patient experience. Leadership support and HCAHPS scores are the top factors driving patient experience work. Hospitals continue focusing on communication, noise reduction, and discharge processes to improve patient experience.
The document discusses connected health and long-term conditions in Northern Ireland. It notes that over 500,000 people in Northern Ireland have a long-term condition, such as hypertension, asthma, or diabetes. These conditions account for a large portion of healthcare spending. The document advocates for connected health technologies to help empower patients, provide healthcare professionals with timely patient information, and make services more accessible in order to better manage long-term conditions. It acknowledges barriers to connected health such as organizational challenges, resource issues, and resistance to change, but emphasizes developing partnerships between various groups to advance connected health.
Dr. Edward Wagner, Director (Emeritus) MacColl Center, Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute addresses the 2014 Weitzman Symposium on The Future of Primary Care
Paul Zollinger-Read: Understanding the big pictureThe King's Fund
Paul Zollinger-Read, GP and Medical Adviser and Clinical Lead on Primary Care, The King's Fund speaks on 'Understanding the big picture: how consortia can grasp early opportunities and take ownership of reforms'
This document discusses physician engagement strategies for hospitals. It begins by defining physician engagement and its importance in today's value-based healthcare system where strategies revolve around physicians. Various physician arrangement models are presented along with their degree of control and risk for the hospital. Tracking metrics for physician engagement like volume, revenue, and quality are suggested. The importance of understanding physician perspectives and culture is emphasized. Successful engagement requires functional changes like new technology as well as emotional changes like making physicians feel valued, supported and involved in decision making. Tactics discussed include dedicated physician relations resources, communication, and helping physicians with their needs rather than focusing on sales.
Collaborative care networks across the disciplinesellencrean
This document discusses collaborative care in healthcare and dentistry's role within collaborative networks for sleep medicine. It begins by defining collaboration and describing healthcare reforms pushing for improved access, quality and lower costs. This has led to initiatives like patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations. The document then discusses how collaborative care integrates behavioral/mental health into primary care. It provides examples of organizations promoting collaborative family healthcare and reviews barriers and keys to success for collaborative networks. Finally, it outlines the dentist's role in successfully participating in and establishing collaborative sleep medicine networks, including recognizing the physician's oversight and being an expert on the treatment options they provide.
Learn how a shift in processes, leadership and culture to an integrated solution can put your hospital on track to achieve improved clinical outcomes, metrics and patient experiences, each of which can have a potentially dramatic financial impact.
OPERATIONAL INTEGRATION: CREATING A HIGH-PERFORMING HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONEmCare
This document discusses operational integration in healthcare organizations. It defines operational integration as synchronizing services across an organization to provide efficient and effective patient-centered care. The key aspects of building a highly integrated organization discussed are assessing organizational culture, aligning physicians and developing leadership, eliminating waste, aligning processes across silos, clear communication, and reducing variance. An example of implementing integration strategies around patient throughput is provided. Overall the document advocates that healthcare organizations pursue operational integration to achieve the goals of improving care quality, patient experience and reducing costs.
Northwell Health is a large integrated healthcare system in New York that is implementing a population health model. It has 21 hospitals, nursing facilities, over 450 practice locations, and employs over 61,000 people including over 13,600 affiliated physicians. The system is focused on clinical care, education, research, insurance, and population health management to improve outcomes for the communities it serves.
Discovering a Common Purpose: Creating Physician EngagementHealth Catalyst
Join Dr. Bryan Oshiro, MD Chief Medical Officer, Health Catalyst , as he shares key best practices in getting physician engagement including identifying and empowering physician leaders in key functional teams, compensating for leadership roles, educating and developing a common purpose, triad teamwork approaches, giving quick, easy, and responsive access to the right data to identify problems and make recommendations, and supporting and empowering physician-led recommendations.
Attendees will learn:
The importance of physician engagement in quality improvement (the “why”)
To describe the challenges and barriers to truly have physicians lead quality improvement (“the what”)
To identify strategies to enhance physician engagement (the “how”)
Creating Physician engagement is a journey. It is a partnership that requires putting the patient first to provide the best care possible.
Please join Dr. Oshiro as he shares his experiences spanning three decades of quality improvement and clinical practice, from Loma Linda University Medical School to Intermountain Healthcare, for what will be an engaging and enlightening session.
Why is physician engagement strategically important? How can you design a strategy that is laser-focused on increasing clinical demand by ensuring your medical staff is aligned?
This presentation highlights key data, a framework for focusing your efforts with an aim statement and developing a programmatic approach to physician engagement.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an
evidence-based practice that improves
outcomes for people with severe mental
illness who are most at-risk of
■ Homelessness
■ Psychiatric hospitalization
■ Institutional recidivism
Recovery Relationships
ACT services are delivered by a
multidisciplinary team of providers who
conduct assertive outreach in the
community.
Team members develop consistent, caring,
person-centered relationships with clients.
These relationships have a positive impact
on outcomes and quality of life.
People who receive ACT services tend to
utilize fewer intensive, high-cost services
such as emergency department visits,
psychiatric crisis services, and psychiatric
hospitalization. They also experience more
independent living and higher rates of
treatment retention.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) began
over 40 years ago and has been studied widely.
Research shows that ACT has consistent, positive
effects upon individuals who have the
most severe symptoms and experience the
greatest impairment. ACT consistently
■ Reduces hospitalization
■ Increases housing stability
■ Improves quality of life
Importance of Fidelity2
Research also shows that fidelity to the ACT
model has a positive effect upon hospitalization
rates. People with mental illness who
receive services from ACT teams that achieve
higher levels of fidelity to the model tend to
experience a greater reduction in hospital days
The document discusses using analytics and care coordination to reduce hospitalizations and arrests of mental health patients. It notes that around 10% of patients are readmitted to psychiatric hospitals within 30 days of discharge. Care coordination aims to break this cycle through improved outcomes, treatment adherence, continuity of care, and identifying high-risk patients. Analytics tools can provide predictive modeling, population clustering, and care quality analysis to develop insights. The goal is to engage all stakeholders to deliver an integrated care plan through data-driven insights and coordination between providers.
Developing Innovative Payment Approaches: Finding the Path to High PerformanceNASHP HealthPolicy
This document discusses developing innovative payment approaches to improve health care performance. It notes problems with the current payment system like fragmented care and rising costs. The goal is to create incentives for care coordination and slow spending growth. Different payment methods like fee-for-service and bundled payments correspond to organizational models on a continuum from independent practices to integrated systems. The document outlines payment reforms in the Affordable Care Act like accountable care organizations and bundled payments. It emphasizes testing various models through the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to reduce costs while preserving or enhancing quality.
This document summarizes a team's work on predicting medication adherence. They analyzed data from Medicare, drug information databases, and census data to develop models with over 45 predictors of non-adherence. Key factors included public health, personal, and medication factors. Automated calls were found to increase prescription filling rates. Effective interventions need to be tailored per patient, with incentives aligned for all stakeholders to improve adherence. Regular measurement of adherence rates is important to identify best practices.
Keeping People Housed
Presentation by Richard Kruszynski, Director of Consultation and Training/Center for Evidence-Based Practices at Case Western Reserve University
An Evidenced Based Practice (EBP) is an intervention for which there is strong research (randomized clinical trials) demonstrating effectiveness in achieving positive consumer outcomes.
Studies have demonstrated positive outcomes in programs where the most common diagnoses were schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder and consumers showed substantial functional impairment.
Other studies have documented benefits for consumers with co-occurring substance abuse disorders.
Center for Evidence-Based Practices (CEBP)
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7169
216-368-0808
The Next Wave of IT Transformation for the Aged Care SectorNapier Healthcare
The document discusses the growing aged care sector and need for IT transformation to address challenges. It notes that aged care is driving up healthcare expenditures and that care coordination and ensuring different doctors' care is coordinated are very important to patients. Transitional care programs between care settings like hospitals and nursing homes can reduce readmissions and healthcare costs. Technology can help reduce costs, medical errors, and overcrowding while improving patient engagement, compliance with medical treatments, and promoting aging in place. The company, Napier Healthcare, provides several digital solutions to help with care coordination and enabling older adults to receive care at home or in assisted living facilities.
Using technology can improve healthcare quality by addressing rising costs and moving to a value-based system. Key assumptions include unsustainable cost growth, payers prioritizing value over volume, and electronic health records (EHRs) and quality becoming standard. One health system improved diabetes care through EHR-enabled care management, standardized workflows, and enhanced patient engagement, achieving significant quality gains. EHRs alone are not sufficient and health systems must address fragmentation through coordinated, team-based care leveraging analytics across the healthcare ecosystem.
Unleashing Data: The Key To Driving Massive ImprovementsHealth Catalyst
The document discusses unleashing the power of data to drive massive improvements in healthcare outcomes. It advocates adopting a balanced approach to improvement across both the spectrum of effort (from light to high effort projects) and value (clinical, financial, patient experience). Following this balanced approach will lead to the greatest results by focusing on data infrastructure, training, and creating a data-driven culture. Examples of improvements across the spectrum are provided.
Can Revalidation Deliver What the Public Expects?IAMRAreval2015
This document discusses public expectations of regulatory revalidation of clinicians and whether revalidation can deliver on those expectations. It notes that public expectations are modest, focusing more on access to care than quality or outcomes. It also discusses different definitions of competency and the complexity of problems in healthcare. While revalidation aims to maintain competency, it has limitations as practice is continuous but revalidation is periodic. The document suggests that for revalidation to meet public expectations, it would need to take a systems approach and include organizational assessments in addition to individual assessments. It also raises the possibility of alternative approaches to evaluation that focus more on intrinsic motivation and attitudes rather than just knowledge and skills.
Physician engagement in hospital governance can improve performance but is often frustrated by lack of meaningful invitation, time constraints, and lack of relevance to physician practice. Five strategies can optimize engagement: demonstrating listening to physicians, removing obstacles to participation like unnecessary meetings, adopting a culture of openness and transparency, keeping commitments made to physicians, and providing staff and infrastructure to support physician engagement. Increased physician engagement carries some risks but risks are greater without engagement, and adopting engagement strategies can create a positive cycle of improved governance and performance.
The Beryl Institute 2013 State of the Patient Experience Benchmarking StudyEngagingPatients
This document summarizes the key findings of a survey of over 1,000 US hospitals regarding their efforts to improve the patient experience. It finds that while patient experience remains a top priority, hospitals feel somewhat less positive about their progress than two years ago. Most hospitals now have a formal definition and structure for patient experience. Leadership support and HCAHPS scores are the top factors driving patient experience work. Hospitals continue focusing on communication, noise reduction, and discharge processes to improve patient experience.
The document discusses connected health and long-term conditions in Northern Ireland. It notes that over 500,000 people in Northern Ireland have a long-term condition, such as hypertension, asthma, or diabetes. These conditions account for a large portion of healthcare spending. The document advocates for connected health technologies to help empower patients, provide healthcare professionals with timely patient information, and make services more accessible in order to better manage long-term conditions. It acknowledges barriers to connected health such as organizational challenges, resource issues, and resistance to change, but emphasizes developing partnerships between various groups to advance connected health.
Dr. Edward Wagner, Director (Emeritus) MacColl Center, Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute addresses the 2014 Weitzman Symposium on The Future of Primary Care
This document discusses the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model and its benefits. It provides examples of organizations that have implemented PCMH initiatives to improve care coordination, access, costs and outcomes. Key points include:
- PCMH aims to strengthen primary care through care coordination, enhanced access, quality improvement and payment reform.
- Studies show PCMH can reduce costs by decreasing ER visits and hospital days while improving outcomes.
- Several large employers, the Department of Defense, and state governments have adopted PCMH models for the populations they insure.
- Successful PCMH models integrate primary care, specialists, hospitals, and community resources through use of health IT, data sharing and care
Patient Centered Medical home talk at WVUPaul Grundy
To employers the cost of healthcare is now a business issue and this talk is about what one large buyer IBM did to drive transformation via broad coalition with other large employers to form the Patient Centered Medical Home movement and the covenant between buyer and provider away from the garbage we now buy episodic uncoordinated disintegrated care. In the change of convenient conversation we have worked with the Primary care providers to give us coordinated, integrated, accessible and compressive care with a set of principles know as the Patient centered medical home.
A Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) happens when primary care healers keeping that core healing relationship with their patients step up to become specialists in Family and Community Medicine. The move is to the discipline of leading a team that delivers population health management, patent centered prevention, care that is coordination, comprehensive accessible 24/7 and integrated across a deliver system. PCMH happens when the specialists in Family and Community Medicine wake up every morning and ask the question how will my team improve the health of my community today?
All over the world three huge factors are in play that is driving the concept of Patient Centered Medical Home. They are:
1) Cost and demography
2) Information technology and data (information that is actionable will equal a demand for accountability by the payer or buyer of the care)
3) Consumer demand to engage healthcare differently (at least as well as they can their bank- on line) have a question about lab results why not e-mail?
But at its core it is a move toward integration of a healing relationship in primary care and population management all at the point of care with the tools to do just that.
Social prescribing is an intervention that aims to address patients' non-clinical needs by connecting them with local community services and activities like arts, leisure, learning, or volunteering groups. It has shown positive mental, emotional, and social benefits. The advantages include reduced need for clinical care, increased patient autonomy, and acknowledgment of socioeconomic factors impacting health. The US model incorporates a social prescribing coordinator and volunteers to guide patients to alternative services and support individual needs. UK clinicians agree patients' social needs are as important as medical conditions, and social prescribing could help address unmet resource needs in primary care.
The document discusses the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of care delivery. It provides evidence that PCMH is associated with improved outcomes, lower costs, and a better experience of care compared to the traditional fee-for-service model. The document argues that widespread adoption of PCMH is needed to transform healthcare delivery and address issues of cost, quality and access.
The document discusses the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model for healthcare delivery. It defines key principles of the PCMH model, including having a personal primary care physician, care coordination by an interdisciplinary team, and a focus on comprehensive, high-quality care. The document argues that the PCMH model should be adopted now because the current healthcare system is broken and unsustainable due to rising costs and quality issues. It also outlines how various stakeholders could benefit from the PCMH model through things like improved health outcomes, reduced costs, and enhanced care coordination.
Developing non-clinical approaches and are pathways to fundamental socioeconomic issues that are presented in the primary care and secondary care settings
VBP, Delivery System Reform, and Health and Social ServicesAndré Thompson, MPA
This document discusses the transition from fee-for-service to value-based payment models in healthcare. It explains that fee-for-service results in poor outcomes and high costs. Value-based payment ties provider reimbursement to outcomes like quality and cost. The document outlines key components of value-based payment implementation including delivery system reform, payment reform, performance measurement, and population health management. It notes that social services organizations will need to demonstrate their value and be accountable for outcomes as the healthcare system shifts its focus to addressing social determinants of health.
35NURSING ECONOMIC$/January-February 2011/Vol. 29/No. 1
T
HE WORLD OF ARISTOTLE AND
Ptolemy believed that Earth
was positioned at the cen-
ter of the universe. Thanks
to Galileo and Copernicus’s studies
in the 16th century, we know this
is not true and that the sun is the
center of our universe. Pers -
pectives of health care have
undergone similar, radical changes
in perception. For centuries we
had a hospital-centric view; an
illness-based model, where the majority of care was
provided in hospitals, when we were ill. In the last
few decades, that model has migrated to a more con-
tinuum of care view; a wellness/health maintenance
model, where emphasis of care is outside the hospital
in other venues such as outpatient, ambulatory/clin-
ic, and home care (see Figure 1).
But as we all know, this is still not where we need
to be to support the highest quality care at the right
cost. Despite a focus on moving care out of the hospi-
tals, one only needs to think about the process of
medication reconciliation between care venues to
realize the lack of seamless integration of care deliv-
ery and the challenges of supporting interoperability
across the continuum. Hence, here I am proposing the
patient centric view, where the patient actively partic-
ipates in his or her care and we look at delivering care
from a patient’s point of view. This allows us to break
down some of the barriers we have struggled with on
our journeys to promote higher quality care through
the use of health information technology (HIT). Now
we need to consider how the health care system
should revolve around the patient, rather than the
patient rotating around the hospital. Considering a
patient-centric point of view when implementing and
optimizing the use of HIT provides new perspectives
on the meaning of “integrated” health care.
Patient-Centric Care
It might seem odd that a health care organization
needs to be reminded to involve the patient in his or
her care. After all, this approach would certainly be
supported from a patient’s perspective. And, of
course, the health care industry has compelling rea-
sons to incorporate a strong customer and service
focus in order to improve patient satisfaction and
impact patient loyalty. But as health care systems
Patient as Center of the Health Care Universe:
A Closer Look at Patient-Centered Care
JUDY MURPHY, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, is Vice President-
Information Services, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI; a
HIMSS Board Member; Co-Chair of the Alliance for Nursing
Informatics; a member of the federal HIT Standards Committee;
and is a Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board Member. Comments
and suggestions can be sent to [email protected]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
We need to consider how the health care system
should revolve around the patient, rather than the
patient rotating around the hospital.
Considering a patient-centric point of view when
implementing and optimizing the use of health infor-
mation technology (HIT) provides new perspect.
35NURSING ECONOMIC$/January-February 2011/Vol. 29/No. 1
T
HE WORLD OF ARISTOTLE AND
Ptolemy believed that Earth
was positioned at the cen-
ter of the universe. Thanks
to Galileo and Copernicus’s studies
in the 16th century, we know this
is not true and that the sun is the
center of our universe. Pers -
pectives of health care have
undergone similar, radical changes
in perception. For centuries we
had a hospital-centric view; an
illness-based model, where the majority of care was
provided in hospitals, when we were ill. In the last
few decades, that model has migrated to a more con-
tinuum of care view; a wellness/health maintenance
model, where emphasis of care is outside the hospital
in other venues such as outpatient, ambulatory/clin-
ic, and home care (see Figure 1).
But as we all know, this is still not where we need
to be to support the highest quality care at the right
cost. Despite a focus on moving care out of the hospi-
tals, one only needs to think about the process of
medication reconciliation between care venues to
realize the lack of seamless integration of care deliv-
ery and the challenges of supporting interoperability
across the continuum. Hence, here I am proposing the
patient centric view, where the patient actively partic-
ipates in his or her care and we look at delivering care
from a patient’s point of view. This allows us to break
down some of the barriers we have struggled with on
our journeys to promote higher quality care through
the use of health information technology (HIT). Now
we need to consider how the health care system
should revolve around the patient, rather than the
patient rotating around the hospital. Considering a
patient-centric point of view when implementing and
optimizing the use of HIT provides new perspectives
on the meaning of “integrated” health care.
Patient-Centric Care
It might seem odd that a health care organization
needs to be reminded to involve the patient in his or
her care. After all, this approach would certainly be
supported from a patient’s perspective. And, of
course, the health care industry has compelling rea-
sons to incorporate a strong customer and service
focus in order to improve patient satisfaction and
impact patient loyalty. But as health care systems
Patient as Center of the Health Care Universe:
A Closer Look at Patient-Centered Care
JUDY MURPHY, RN, FACMI, FHIMSS, is Vice President-
Information Services, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI; a
HIMSS Board Member; Co-Chair of the Alliance for Nursing
Informatics; a member of the federal HIT Standards Committee;
and is a Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board Member. Comments
and suggestions can be sent to [email protected]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
We need to consider how the health care system
should revolve around the patient, rather than the
patient rotating around the hospital.
Considering a patient-centric point of view when
implementing and optimizing the use of health infor-
mation technology (HIT) provides new perspect ...
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This document discusses care coordination models for serving people experiencing homelessness. It provides background on the historical segmentation of health care services and the difficulties this poses for those without stable housing. Care coordination aims to increase access to comprehensive care through coordinated treatment plans, minimizing travel between services by providing multiple services in one location. The document outlines some key elements, goals and benefits of care coordination, as well as ongoing challenges, and provides examples of solutions being implemented through various case studies, including increasing access, improving continuity of care, intensive case management, community outreach, and coordination across settings.
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2. It introduces case management as a promising solution, defined as a method that aims for continuity of services and quality clinical outcomes through efficient management of available resources for specific clientele.
3. Case management relies on thorough knowledge of client needs, estimating patient stay lengths, and planning coordinated treatment processes to improve care quality while controlling costs.
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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