To achieve significant gains in quality and efficiency, the healthcare delivery system will need fundamental and systemic changes, say healthcare and health policy leaders. Nearly nine of 10 (89 percent) respondents to the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Healthcare Opinion Leaders Survey agree on the need for fundamental change; only 8 percent said modest changes to the delivery system would be sufficient.
When polled about specific strategies for improving the organization of the system, a large majority of healthcare leaders said that strengthening primary care (90 percent), encouraging care coordination and the management of care transitions (90 percent), and promoting care management of complex patients (88 percent) were very important or important to improving health system performance.
Opinion leaders also voiced strong support for payment reform: 84 percent support providing supplemental payments to primary care providers for delivering comprehensive, coordinated, and accessible care. In addition, 84 percent support incentives for avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations. Download the data brief.
