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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

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Dr. John Toussaint, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, describes the pilot unit as the “model cell,” a place for experimentation, learning, and modeling new methods for the rest of the system. Choose a Pilot Unit Within the Organization. It’s important to select this pilot unit carefully.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

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It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. Purchasers of healthcare services encounter widely disparate charges across different healthcare delivery systems for equivalent surgical procedures, varying by up to 40%.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

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We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, of which I am a founding member, is piloting a system of metrics for well-being developed by J. Today, he rarely meets in person with doctors.

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One Hospital’s Experiments in Virtual Health Care

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As more commercial and state payers offer telehealth coverage and patients come to expect virtual care as standard practice, meeting the demand is quickly becoming clinically and financially imperative. Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? Insight Center.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

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In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries. Yet, a variety of financial and operational problems impeded success and we lacked a clear strategic path toward building the kind of coordinated care delivery system healthcare desperately needs. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action.

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Making Time to Really Listen to Your Patients

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Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. Here are some steps such organizations might take: Share patient stories and related lessons at every meeting. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. Consider a narrative-medicine component.

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How One Medical Group Is Decreasing Physician Burnout

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And the whole system, not just primary care, is responsible for quality metrics related to prevention and chronic care (e.g., This enables them to review the work quickly and efficiently and follow up on any flagged issues. the percentage of eligible patients who received a mammogram).

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