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THE ACUTE NEED FOR DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM

The US healthcare system faces challenges like high costs, poor care coordination, and overuse of services. This article highlights the need for reforms, such as promoting integrated delivery systems, payment reform, and evidence stewardship. It also emphasizes the importance of patient-centered care and aligning voices for effective change.

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THE ACUTE NEED FOR DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM

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  1. MARGARET E. O’KANE THE ACUTE NEED FOR DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM

  2. WE PAY ALMOST DOUBLE OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS Per capita health care spending of select OECD nations—2003 Source: The Commonwealth Fund

  3. BUT WE DON’T GET WHAT WE PAY FOR 30-Day Fatality Rate After Acute MI Source: OECD Health Care Quality Indicators Project

  4. FRAGMENTATION LEADS TO... • Underuse of IT • Overuse of expensive services • Poor care coordination • Higher costs for preventable diseases (i.e., diabetes)

  5. BUT HIGH-PERFORMING SYSTEMS EXIST! • Geisinger Health System • Intermountain Health Care • Marshfield Clinic • Kaiser Permanente • Mayo Clinic

  6. REFORMS NEEDED • Patient-Centered Medical Home • Give every American the opportunity to join a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) by 2011. • Short-term reforms should increase payments to primary care providers, • Provide support for primary care medical education • Expand Medicare’s Patient-Centered Medical Home demonstration project

  7. REFORMS NEEDED • Promotion of Integrated Delivery Systems • Medicare’s Physician Group Practice Demonstration provided incentives to increase patient engagement, expand care management, improve care transitions and increase the role of non-physician providers • Similar principles in Physician Hospital Collaboration Demonstration • Both projects provide experience, model for future reform

  8. REFORMS NEEDED • Payment Reform! • P4P was the first step away from FFS • FFS is outmoded and leads to overuse • Need approaches that use bundled payments across sites of care • Gain-sharing will allow providers and systems to reduce overuse without paying a financial penalty

  9. REFORMS NEEDED • Evidence Stewardship • We don’t have evidence to support much of the medical care we deliver • Little evidence to support treatment for the elderly and children • No coherent agenda exists to compare the effectiveness of different treatments. • It takes far too long for evidence to get from the bench to the bedside. • Competing/conflicting measures, failure to align public and private measurement and reporting create confusion

  10. The National Priorities Partnership:A Strong Step Forward • Convened by the National Quality Forum • 28 multi-stakeholder organizations • Consumers, purchasers, quality alliances, health professionals, public and private health organizations, health plans • Strong commitment to performance measurement, public reporting • Willing to work collaboratively,prepared to advocate © National Priorities Partnership. Used with permission.

  11. National Priorities High Impact Areas • Patient and family engagement • Population health • Safety • Palliative care • Care coordination • Overuse • Management of patient-focused episodes © National Priorities Partnership. Used with permission.

  12. REAL REFORM REQUIRESALIGNMENT OF VOICES,POLITICAL WILL, COURAGE

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