Comparative effectiveness research has proven itself to be an important component in health care for identifying the best and most cost-effective interventions and standardizing their use. “A Comparative Effectiveness Research System (CER System) is a mechanism for synthesizing research about different medical interventions and translating it into guidelines for or restrictions on the use of different types of therapies, in an attempt to maximize good outcomes for patients” (Jonas, 278). The main goal of the CER System is to maintain and standardize quality and of health care and control the costs. In the comparative effectiveness research system, researchers can compare the benefits and harms of treatments, procedures, medications, and many more aspects in healthcare to see which one is more effective in preventing, diagnosing, treating, or even monitoring patients conditions. Treatments and procedures can be very different depending on the situation, and the comparative effectiveness research system develops the most effective approach to every situation.
The ultimate result would be an improvement in the value they deliver to the patient. If clinical value cannot be achieved, however, where else could a health care organization turn to achieve greater value to a customer? If clinical value cannot be achieved, a health care organization can turn to the process quality to achieve greater value to a customer. The text outlined, that “process quality represents the ease with which a customer can access the clinical quality” (Berkowitz, pg.201). There are several dimensions of service process quality, which includes dependability, responsiveness, authority, empathy and tangible evidence, if all these can be achieved with evidence, then the group accomplished customer value enhanced with clinical value.
Health Information Exchange Professor Crossley Ebony Drummond October 21, 2013 Health Information Exchange The Electronic health information exchange helps medical professionals such as Nurses, doctors, pharmacist and other health care providers. This system also allows patients to properly access and safely shares the patient’s medical records efficiently, bettering speed, quality and the cost of patient care. Electronic health information exchange cannot replace intercommunication between the patient and the patient’s physician, but it can greatly improve the completeness of patients medical record in which cam effect the care positively, current medications and other information that is carefully abstracted during visits. Sharing patient records properly will better inform decision making at a certain point of care. This can allow providers to avoid re-admission, avoiding medication errors, lower duplication testing and improve diagnosis.
Such a study could only be beneficial to the hospital at large and increase patient wellbeing as well as raise satisfaction scores. Also, the patient in this case study was being put in restraints. Restraints should be the mode of last resort and the use should be reevaluated frequently (Use of restraints: MedlinePlus Medical
Quality of Care and Physician Quality Reporting Initiative To explain the concept of payment/reimbursement based on quality of care is to first define what quality of care means. The simplest definition I could find states “Quality (of care) is a measure of the ability of a doctor, hospital or health plan to provide services for individuals and populations that increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge…” (Web Definition: Quality of Care, n.d.). The U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines ‘quality’ as “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. What this really means is that each individual consumer should receive the best possible health care available every time services are needed. Health care providers should provide care that meets the needs of each individual patient, including the use of appropriate advances in medical technology.
There are a lot of pros and cons of pay-for-performance in health care (see appendix for charts.) the chart will show what people think about pay-for-performance and the good they think it does for the health care system but it also shows the cons what people think is wrong with the pay-for-performance program. However, many are not satisfied by pay-for-performance including congress who are not on board with the Medicare reimbursement because the policy relies on the evidence-based medicine it is used to developed a “clinical practice guidelines and compensate health care providers according to their compliance with the best practices dictated by a
Legislation was motivated by the expectation that the use of the electronic medical record would lead to increased quality of care and lower health care costs. They hoped to lower the cost by avoiding inefficiencies, inappropriate care, and medical errors (Alder-Milstein et al., 2013). According to Alder-Milstein (2013) health care costs could be lowered by the use of the electronic medical record in several different ways. Providing easier access to patients’ medical records could limit unnecessary office visits and allow providers to deal with clinical issues over the phone. Sending electronic prescriptions to
The Internet most particularly makes it possible to quickly transmit large amounts of data to countries such as India where the information can be processed and returned. Countries like the U.S. have costly medical care facilities thereby prompting people to consider cheaper alternatives. A heart surgery in India is cheaper and affordable compared to that of U.S. b) Is the globalization of health care good or bad for patients? The outsourcing of medical procedures to nations where medical professionals are paid lower could clearly benefits consumers. However, the treatment standards in countries such as India may not be up to the standards found in the United States, and that the process takes some control out of the hands of the consumers.
Assignment 2 1. What is the motivation for introducing medical smart cards and what are their benefits? The main motivations for introducing medical smart cards is the need to reduce the cost of healthcare and the need to integrate modern technology. Medical smart cards help reduce costs in healthcare because there's no more need to waste money on paper records. The only thing costs of such a system would be the hardware and software needed.
Executive summary The emerging market in health care innovation Tilman Enrbeck, Nicolaus Henke and Thomas Kibasi Emerging Innovations in the delivery of health care services particularly in developing countries, offer a deep insight on how to tackle its rising costs. As health care is consuming large share of income in both developed and developing countries. Innovators from developing countries have founds ways to deliver health care effectively at lower cost while increasing both access and quality. The innovators are uncovering the pattern for raising productivity across health sector- public, private, and social. Despite the passage of health care reform legislation which concerns on tackling costs- reducing the costs of better health care