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Category: Quality
Reinventing Health Care by Paying for Quality
Health care systems around the world are beginning to shift from paying for any and all care provided to incentivizing the provision of high quality care. However, pay-for-performance programs create their own problems. The reinvention of health care begins with Continue Reading …
Academic Medicine: Failing When it Comes to Quality
“The most essential part of a student’s instruction is obtained…not in the lecture-room, but at the bedside. Nothing seen there is lost…its unforeseen occurrences stamp themselves indelibly in the memory.” Oliver Wendell Holmes The Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education Continue Reading …
Metrics for Doctors and Patients
Electronic health records can improve processes of care as well as real health outcomes for diabetic patients. However, it is critical that patients themselves are held accountable for their own health and given the tools to do so. The ability Continue Reading …
Who’s Going Electronic?
As electronic medical records begin to spread across the clinical environment, federal incentives intended to drive uptake among physician practices might be rewarding those who already have made the transition to the digital age. The ability of electronic health records Continue Reading …
MassHealth’s P4P Program Fails to Produce
Conflicting with evidence from other studies, an evaluation of MassHealths Medicaid Pay-for-Performance plan failed to show a significant effect on quality improvement measures despite spending $2.6 million for incentives. Pay for Performance (P4P) is the concept of using financial incentives Continue Reading …