Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Quality
Pay-for-performance goes global
Policy makers seek to transform healthcare delivery at home and abroad by shifting payment from volume-based to quality-based methods. This study explores elements common across pay-for-performance in 13 countries. Policy makers at home and abroad have embraced pay-for-performance (P4P) as Continue Reading …
Non-financial barriers to care
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was developed to help reduce affordability barriers to accessing medical care. With PPACA, the increase in affordability of insurance and the number of individuals covered will eliminate some, if not all, financial Continue Reading …
EMRs: Airbags for when your doctor crashes you
EMRs have the potential to prevent dangerous medication errors – I certainly have been saved a few times by them – but in this study appear to function mostly as a rescue device once an adverse event has already taken Continue Reading …
Techno-Babble
A recent Health Affairs article casts doubt on the cost-saving prospects of health information technology despite the significant investments made by hospitals, physicians, and the federal government to promote electronic records. Reduced ordering of imaging and other diagnostic studies by Continue Reading …
Using Malpractice Claims as a Proxy for Quality
“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.” – Anton Chekhov Quality in health care has become a large driving force for managers, clinicians, Continue Reading …
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