Public Health Emergencies: Is Health Care Ready to Respond?
Healthcare organizations that prepare for natural and man-made disasters can help manage the inevitable.
A Data-Driven Approach to Improving Clinical Care and Reducing Costs
The experiences of two health systems provide insight into how healthcare providers can use advanced data analytics to sustainably improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.
A Finance Leader’s Guide to Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines
To be able to effectively promote the adoption of evidence-based clinical guidelines, healthcare finance leaders must first clearly understand how the guidelines are created and deployed.
Finding Cost Savings in the Era of Value
The transition to value requires healthcare organizations to control costs while maintaining quality and patient satisfaction.
Group Health Cooperative’s Effective Use Patient Decision Aids: Key Success Factors
The effective use of patient decision aids is exemplified by an approach implemented by Group Health Cooperative in Seattle (now a part of Kaiser Permanente).
Patient Engagement: A Missing Piece to the Value Puzzle
Healthcare organizations face a pressing need to meet the needs of the top 5 percent of the population who account for 50 percent of the nation’s healthcare cost.
Managing the Cost of Quality
Healthcare leaders need to provide relevant stakeholders organizationwide with transparency into quality-related costs to drive performance improvement progress. The right tools and processes make the needed visibility possible.
Can We Get a National Action Plan for Patient Safety?
Bipartisan collaboration among the nation’s political leaders is required to develop an action plan for ensuring patients receive safe, high-quality care within the U.S. healthcare system.
Toward a Common Vision for Value Based Care Metrics
Reporting dozens of potentially conflicting metrics from government and commercial payers can be a burden on providers, who seek ways to streamline or prioritize the number of metrics.
Primary Care Provider Taps Grants To Fight Childhood Obesity
Through partnerships with local restaurants, community partners, schools and grocery stores, AltaMed Health Services estimates it has reached nearly 200,000 community members with healthier food options that stem diabetes and childhood obesity rates.