Becoming the Change Agent Your Healthcare System NeedsBy Dr. John Haughom презентация

Becoming the Change Agent Your Healthcare System Needs By Dr. John Haughom

Becoming an Agent of Change Becoming an agent of change in healthcare is not easy. Working with clinicians and healthcare operational leaders across has exposed two trends. First, discussions dominated by a common theme — tight budgets and cost cutting.

Becoming an Agent of Change No doubt there is a need to control costs. But in this focus on cost cutting, are we forgetting the patient? Many countries are struggling with healthcare costs as a major part of the national budgets for most industrialized countries. Costs do need to be managed more effectively so it is not surprising that reforms are focused on controlling the growth of healthcare costs.

Healthcare Quality and Safety Issues Healthcare also faces quality and safety issues that are equally important to patients. In healthcare, the agents of change are the clinicians who provide patient care. Yet, they often lack the ability to actually measure the quality of care. As a result, they don’t always know what is best for the patient, nor can they learn because they don’t have quality and outcomes data.

Healthcare Quality and Safety Issues Clinicians are discovering that debating proven practices and using data to select the most successful processes are enhancing patient outcomes. Continuous improvement can be rewarding and fun. But requires data and a willingness to discover tested practices that work best. When clinicians work together, they can agree on what quality is and start measuring their performance.

Healthcare Quality and Safety Issues Using data and analysis to drive continuous improvement is exciting. If you look at the cost side of the equation, it turns out that those who focus on quality frequently have the lowest costs.

Healthcare Quality and Safety Issues The quality of U.S. healthcare for many diseases is actually below the average of other countries based on data from the international association Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. If the U.S. healthcare system focused more on raising quality just to the level of the average OECD data, it would improve care and save the American people $500 billion a year, representing approximately 20 percent of the annual U.S. healthcare budget.

Clinician Groups for Change Groups of innovative clinicians are forming, identifying evidence-based care practices, measuring outcomes, and continuously improving care for their patients. In the process, clinicians are asking key questions. Disease by disease, they are attacking the medical conditions that afflict humanity, and in the process improving the value of patient care.

Clinician Groups for Change Every time clinicians embarks on this quest, there is enormous energy in the room and the reform debate suddenly shifts to what matters most to both clinicians and patients: the value of care patients are receiving.

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