title: Perioperative Surgical Home: Perspective II.
abstract: Healthcare delivery and payment systems in the United States must continue to be reformed to address currently untenably increasing healthcare expenditures, while increasing the quality of care. The Perioperative Surgical Home is a highly patient-centered approach to care, focusing on the standardization, coordination, transitions, and value of care, throughout the perioperative continuum, including after hospital discharge. To increase the value of surgical care, any Perioperative Surgical Home model must translate, implement, and sustain improvements in quality, safety, and satisfaction, plus cost reduction strategies, throughout the perioperative continuum. Healthcare informatics, analytics, decision support, and practice change are central to this effort.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, JT862, 619 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA. Electronic address: tvetter@uab.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Vetter
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, JT804, 619 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA.
authors.forename: Keith A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D058996:Quality Improvement; D014481:United States
keywords: Clinical decision support; Health care analytics; Health care informatics; Perioperative surgical home; Personalized care; Population health management; Value stream map; Value-based care