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Chapter 57 - Performance improvement in a changing health-care system

from Section IV - Principles of care for the elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2016

By
Albert G. Crawford ,
John F. McAna  and
Matthew Alcusky
Edited by
Jan Busby-Whitehead ,
Christine Arenson ,
Samuel C. Durso ,
Daniel Swagerty ,
Laura Mosqueda ,
Maria Fiatarone Singh  and
William Reichel
Jan Busby-Whitehead
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina
Christine Arenson
Affiliation:
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
Samuel C. Durso
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Daniel Swagerty
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Laura Mosqueda
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Maria Fiatarone Singh
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
William Reichel
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

The United States health care system is undergoing a rapid transformation to value-based care, and performance improvement is at the core of this transition. Effective performance improvement requires an advanced infrastructure of health information technology capable of delivering critical information to patients and providers at the point of care to facilitate shared decision making. Patient registries and interoperable electronic health records will be instrumental in achieving the overarching goal of managing the health of populations. As programs implemented by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and parallel efforts in the private sector continue to evolve, quality measurement and reporting will remain central to performance improvement efforts. Electronic health records play an essential role in successfully measuring, reporting, and achieving meaningful improvement in the quality of health care. The success of value-based care models in the United States is dependent upon the progress of performance improvement initiatives.
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Reichel's Care of the Elderly
Clinical Aspects of Aging
 , pp. 756 - 768
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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