Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Value 1000 - A practical proposal for measuring quality

The healthcare industry is abuzz and almost obsessed with improving quality of care and reducing cost of coverage. While there are several proposals out there on how to do this, the big question still remains. How do we "measure" and "reward" quality? Mayo’s recent recommendation of Medicare Value Indexing is a step in the right direction. Well we took it a step further and explored some ways of actually implementing it.

Here is a proposal that we think could add value and is simple enough to implement. And don't flame me, you Six Sigma people! I actually do know karate!
You can download the white paper (it's FREE, people!) from here :
http://www.metaanalytix.com/whitepaper_value1000.html

Let me know your feedback

No comments:

Post a Comment