Engineering Value in Healthcare: Applying Failure Modes and Effects Analysis to Value Based Purchasing

Value-Based Purchasing As a Bridge Between Value and Access

VALUE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS FOR THE EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS IN EGYPT

General Authority for Educational Buildings (GAEB) in Egypt is responsible for new construction and maintenance of the educational building [1]. According to the Sixth Five- Years Plan in Egypt, the program of educational structures includes new construction of about 2915 schools, with 39.8 thousand classes. Also, maintenance works for buildings about 1250 schools. These works needs a high budg...

Valuing improvement in value-based purchasing.

BACKGROUND Medicare will soon implement hospital value-based purchasing (VBP) using a scoring system that rewards both achievement (absolute performance) and improvement (performance increase over time). However, improvement is defined so as to give less credit to initial low performers than initial high performers. Because initial low performers are disproportionately hospitals in socioeconomi...

Introducing Value-Based Purchasing into TRICARE Reform.

TRICARE, the health benefits program created for beneficiaries of the U.S. Department of Defense, covers health care provided in military treatment facilities and by civilian providers. Congress is now considering how to update TRICARE, which was first developed in the 1980s drawing on managed care concepts from civilian health plans. This article places TRICARE's current managed care strategy ...

Value-based healthcare.

An elderly man with advanced esophageal cancer arrives in the operating room: his feeding tube has migrated out of his jejunum, spilling debris and bacteria into a previously sterile abdominal cavity. The OR clock fluoresces “2 AM.” With the patient’s immune system ringing alarm bells, his body has mobilized for biological warfare. His pulse races ... breathing hurries ... temperature climbs. A...