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Ten strategies to lower costs, improve quality, and engage patients: the view from leading health system CEOs.
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Health affairs (Project Hope) [Health Aff (Millwood)] 2013 Feb; Vol. 32 (2), pp. 321-7. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Patient-centeredness--the idea that care should be designed around patients' needs, preferences, circumstances, and well-being--is a central tenet of health care delivery. For CEOs of health care organizations, patient-centered care is also quickly becoming a business imperative, with payments tied to performance on measures of patient satisfaction and engagement. In A CEO Checklist for High-Value Health Care, we, as executives of eleven leading health care delivery institutions, outlined ten key strategies for reducing costs and waste while improving outcomes. In this article we describe how implementation of these strategies benefits both health care organizations and patients. For example, Kaiser Permanente's Healthy Bones Program resulted in a 30 percent reduction in hip fracture rates for at-risk patients. And at Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle, nurses reorganized care patterns and increased the time they spent on direct patient care to 90 percent. Our experiences show that patient-engaged care can be delivered in ways that simultaneously improve quality and reduce costs.
- Subjects :
- Checklist
Decision Making
Delivery of Health Care economics
Delivery of Health Care methods
Delivery of Health Care standards
Efficiency, Organizational
Evidence-Based Medicine methods
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Quality of Health Care standards
Cost Control methods
Delivery of Health Care organization & administration
Patient Participation methods
Quality Improvement organization & administration
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1544-5208
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Health affairs (Project Hope)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 23381525
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1074