Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Quality
Does Pay-For-Performance Improve Outcomes?
Throughout the modern history of medicine, health care has been paid for in a “fee-for-service” framework – physicians performed services and physicians were paid for those services accordingly. A common criticism is that fee-for-service incentivizes physicians towards overuse without improving Continue Reading …
Docs Spend Too Much Time Behind a Computer
For years, the US has worked toward fully integrating electronic health records (EHRs) into healthcare systems in order to improve outcomes, quality of care, and cost-effectiveness, otherwise known as the Triple Aim. However, from physicians’ anecdotal experiences with EHRs, they Continue Reading …
Leapfrog Measures Show Grade Inflation
Quantifying hospital performance has become an increasingly important trend. One of the pioneers was The Leapfrog Group, who introduced a self-reported Safe Practice Score (SPS) for hospitals in 2004. Since then, measures of hospital quality have proliferated, including mandatory reports Continue Reading …
Analyzing Texas’ Tort Reforms
Malpractice claims are not a popular topic around a physician’s dinner table – in fact, throughout my medical training, I’ve heard peers express unwillingness to pursue certain specialties specifically due those specialties’ high malpractice premiums. And with the annual cost Continue Reading …
Paying for Quality
Paying for Quality from Megan Douglas
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