Delivery System Transformation
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
U.S.
Lean principles and processes have become important tools for transforming health care delivery, transparency and cost. Yet, while more and more success stories are emerging on the system side, there’s an opportunity for lean in managing population health.
Hospital leaders are working to redesign care delivery systems, using payment models that center on individual and community needs.
Innovative approaches will help hospitals and health systems to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and…
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
Performance data give Medicare and other payers the ability to measure the value of health services.
Value-based competition will thoroughly disrupt health care markets and will favor innovative players.
Providers will need to reconsider what…
Policy
The Center for Healthcare Governance winter symposium in February was a terrific event, and not only because it gave some of us a chance to thaw out in the Phoenix sunshine. This was my first CHG meeting since becoming editor of Trustee in the fall, and what impressed me most was how eager…
Trustee Talking Points
Trustee Talking Points
Health care reimbursement is moving away from the fee-for-service model to value-based payment.
The trend is being pushed by Medicare, private insurers and companies that provide coverage plans for their employees.…
When you agreed to serve on the board of a hospital, you probably knew that health care was changing. But I bet you didn't anticipate how sweeping that transformation would be — from how providers are reimbursed to how and where care is delivered; from medical technology that's…
Trustee Talking Points
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Cost is driving a rise in ambulatory care and a proliferation of outpatient settings.
Technology enables these facilities to deliver care across multiple settings.
Roughly eight models of ambulatory sites have emerged.
Differences between these…
Infant mortality hits record low
The U.S. mortality rate fell 2.3% in 2014, to a record low 582.1 deaths per 100,000 live births. The drop was led by a 13.5% decline in deaths from respiratory illness.