In a recent health policy viewpoint article in JAMA, Drs. Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan noted that, although the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has done some good during its ten+ years of existence, it has failed to “become the engine that it could be for transforming the nation’s health care finance
In the June 15, 2017 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Andrew Ryan and colleagues from the University of Michigan published an evaluation of the Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program (HVBP). To summarize, if you offer a 1% incentive, and then dilute it by offering it only for the 40% of hospital patients
Improving health care requires convincing people to make changes. Changing a care process begins with changing the minds of the people involved in that process. But, how can we change people’s minds? I am a person who loves logic and numbers. Therefore, my tendency is to assume that the best way to convince people to
Simon Sinek’s TED talk: Change minds by starting with why, not what Read More »
Catching up on some reading, I came across this article in Medical News Today, describing the results of survey research conducted by Brenda E. Sirovich, MD, MS, and colleagues from the VA Outcomes Group (White River Junction, Vermont), and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. They surveyed primary care physicians and
Primary care physicians acknowledge over-utilization and blame it on the lawyers. Read More »
Few things in my work life are better than finding mind-blowing information from other industries and figuring out the implications for healthcare. I recently read a set of slides by Paul Adams, a user experience designer that worked at Google and Facebook. Although Adams’ presentation had 224 slides, the main thesis was relatively simple and
The transformation of our health care system requires many different people to change their behaviors. Leaders of health care organizations have to be willing to make investments that they have historically not been willing to make. Physicians have to change the way they relate to patients, the way they interact with their non-physician team members
How does behavioral economics and “gamification” relate to ACOs? Read More »
