Outcomes and performance measurement: redefining how healthcare is strategized and delivered.
The prevalence of managed care, integrated delivery systems, and new financing structures is nudging healthcare into a value-driven rather than a cost-controlling market, with a focus on community and improvement. Fueled by increasing demands from healthcare purchasers, consumers, accrediting bodies, and government agencies, providers are escalating their efforts to demonstrate that they offer the highest technical and service quality.
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D003363:Cost Control; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010820:Physicians; D017150:Public Sector; D020379:Risk Adjustment; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States