Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association
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To sustain gains from a process improvement initiative, healthcare organizations should: Explain to staff why a process improvement initiative is needed. Encourage leaders within the organization to champion the process improvement, and tie their evaluations to its outcomes. Ensure that both leaders and employees have the skills to help sustain the sought-after process improvements.
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Hospital and health system leaders should address six important questions before shifting to a quality-focused physician compensation plan: Does the shift to a value-based compensation model present opportunities beyond the addition of quality incentives? Should measures be universal or aligned with specific payer initiatives? How much of an incentive is enough? How should quality and cost-effectiveness be measured? How should performance on the measures be assessed? How will total and individual compensation be affected?
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Healthc Financ Manage · Dec 2013
Improving the quality of perioperative services in an era of reform.
To improve performance in the surgical services arena, healthcare leaders should focus on: Improving perioperative outcomes. Meeting value-based purchasing quality targets. Reducing readmissions. Improving the perioperative experience.