Collaborations to Improve Healthcare Quality

Engaging patients to improve healthcare quality.

M any health services organizations are seeking – and finding – ways to successfully engage patients in all areas of healthcare services, from planning to delivery to evaluation. Including patients in discussions and decisions about their own healthcare may seem like a good and obvious thing to do. However, assessing the success of this approach is complicated as there is little empirical evide...

Applying Lean Principles to Improve Healthcare Quality and Safety Applying Lean Principles to Improve Healthcare Quality and Safety

Payer and provider collaborations that improve quality outcomes in oncology.

The statement that follows highlights the expert panel presentations, discussions, and conclusions, and is intended to provide meaningful guidance to oncologists and other practicing physicians and to the payer community as they move forward to keep pace with new cancer diagnostics, biologic therapies, and disease management techniques to improve cancer care and achieve quality patient outcomes.

Many Routes to the Top: Efforts to Improve Care Quality, Coordination, and Costs Through Provider Collaborations

In response to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) and a combination of broader market forces, hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers around the country have been increasingly collaborating among themselves and with public and private payers on efforts to reform care delivery systems and payment methods. While their structures vary widely, most o...

Using Mobile Technology to Improve Healthcare Service Quality

Improving healthcare service quality for illness of treatment, illness prevention and patient service is difficult for most hospitals because the hospitals are lack adequate resources and labor. In order to provide better healthcare service quality for patients, mobile technology can be used to manage healthcare in a way that provides the optimal healthcare service for patients. Pursuing utiliz...