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Improving the Patient Experience: People, Process, Place Model

Tom Spencer

Hospitals, health systems, and some private practice groups are working actively and diligently to improve patient satisfaction scores. The most commonly used measure of patient satisfaction is the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ( HCAHPS ). For hospitals that are underperforming, how can they improve?

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Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Four key outcomes to transforming healthcare: Lower entry barriers and increase geographic reach to improve access to care.

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

In addition, we believe that in order to deliver on the promise of improved health and reduced spending, VBC must be augmented with a structured approach to eliminate waste and be delivered in conjunction with a broad-based effort to address factors that are outside of the traditional boundaries of healthcare.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

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. Measuring staff well-being and clinician resilience before and after a new technology or process improvement is deployed is essential to eradicating burnout.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry. Increasing Quality.

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Do Doctors Get Worse as They Get Older?

Harvard Business

However, this policy has recently come under scrutiny due to its high burden to doctors and the lack of sound evidence that recertification processes improve doctors’ quality of care.