Ways to
Improve the
Health System
Hello!
I am Vince Cyrus J. Estadilla
I am a student from BSN 1 section A
You can find me at
[email protected]
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“ Good health is not
something we can buy.
However, it can be an
extremely valuable
savings account.”
-Anne Wilson Schaef
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1. Collect Data and
Analyze Patient
Outcomes.
The first step to improving the quality of care
at your organization is to analyze your
existing data.
⬡ You should assess both your patient population and your organizational
procedures to identify areas for improvement.
⬡ Use EHRs, outcomes studies, patient satisfaction surveys, and other
data sources to closely track the health, outcomes, general wellbeing,
and costs for individual patients across the whole continuum of care.
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2. Set Goals and Commit
to Ongoing Evaluation.
The second step to improving the quality of
care at your organization is to set certain
goals.
⬡ Once you've reviewed your patient demographic data to understand
their risk and researched your practice operations to identify areas for
improvement, it's time to prioritize those areas and set goals.
⬡ If you need some guidance, there are various health organizations with
defined quality and consistency measures that could guide your goal-
setting process. Next, your company must commit to ongoing evaluation
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⬡ Next, your company must commit to ongoing
evaluation.
⬡ The key to expediting any quality
improvement process is known as the PDSA
(Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle.
⬡ This approach was developed by the
Associates in Process Improvement and is a
strong tool for increasing quality in healthcare
settings.
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3. Improve Access to
Care.
Improving access to care doesn’t only refer to
efforts to get patients to visit their primary care
physician regularly or use preventive services
⬡ Having access to care is the single most critical factor for
increasing quality healthcare and patient outcomes.
⬡ The emerging trend toward onsite clinics and robust
workplace wellness programs is one example of more
convenient, accessible care.
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⬡ According to Deloitte's latest research, The Future of Health 2040,
the healthcare sector is on the "edge of a large-scale upheaval"
driven by increasing connectivity, interoperable data, open
platforms, and consumer-focused care.
⬡ Primary care providers that are already innovating to deliver
more accessible and connected care for their patients will be ahead
of this rising trend.
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4. Focus on Patient
Engagement.
Patients can be the best advocates for their
own health, but first they have to be engaged
and taught to be proactive healthcare
consumers.
⬡ This is not an easy assignment, but it's one that primary
care physicians are particularly well-prepared to do.
⬡ Primary care physicians are better set up to view the
patient's full healthcare journey than medical
professionals who work in hospitals, specialty care
centers, or urgent care facilities.
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⬡ Patient interaction shouldn't end with the patient, though.
⬡ For real involvement in healthcare, primary care
professionals should think more holistically and develop
effective methods to link and encourage communication
between:
Families, doctors, additional care providers, insurance
providers, and social services across the patient's whole
healthcare journey.
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5. Connect and
Collaborate With Other
Organizations.
Finally, healthcare organizations that
genuinely want to enhance their quality of
care should routinely investigate and learn
from other associations in their local region
and across the country.
⬡ Go back to those areas for improvement you identified
and goals that you set and seek for other healthcare
organizations that thrive in those areas.
⬡ Next, contact out to the organizations you've chosen and
find out what you can learn from them.
⬡ In addition to adopting improvements at your own clinic,
you may identify healthcare groups you may work with to
enhance patient outcomes.
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⬡ In other words, primary care professionals are best suited
to assume responsibility for individual patients both
within and beyond the clinic walls.
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Thanks!
You can find me at:
@VinceCyrusEstadilla
[email protected]
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