Question

How would you, as a patient, find information about a provider's quality or prices? How would you assess the confidence you have in that information?

Answer 1

Ans) The goal of measuring, reporting, and comparing healthcare outcomes is to achieve the Quadruple Aim of healthcare:

- Improve the patient experience of care.
- Improve the health of populations.
- Reduce the per capita cost of healthcare.
- Reduce clinician and staff burnout.
- The organization behind the Triple Aim—the -Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)—is dedicated to outcomes improvement. IHI describes measurement as “a critical part of testing and implementing changes. Measures tell a team whether the changes they are making actually lead to improvement.” The fourth aim may vary depending on the organization.

Healthcare organizations–motivated by the Quadruple Aim–measure outcomes for several reasons:

Reveal areas in which interventions could improve care.
- Identify variations of care.
- Provide evidence about interventions that work best for certain types of patients under certain circumstances.
- Compare the effectiveness of various treatments and procedures.

CMS grouped outcome measures into seven categories weighted by importance:

1) Mortality (22 percent)
2) Safety of care (22 percent)
3) Readmissions (22 percent)
4) Patient experience (22 percent)
5) Effectiveness of care (4 percent)
6) Timeliness of care (4 percent)
7) Efficient use of medical imaging (4 percent)