What Defines a High-Performing Healthcare System? Study Shows There's No Consensus.

A new study, published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, found there is no consensus among healthcare stakeholders regarding what defines a high-performing healthcare delivery system.   Researchers identified articles defining high performance with respect to a healthcare system or organization in PubMed and WorldCat databases from 2005 to 2015 and the New York Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report from 1999 to 2016. Read more...   High Performance .  It has become, to some extent, the term we love to hate in EMS.  “High Performance EMS” has been defined by Jack Stout and Jerry Overton and articulated by the Academy of International Mobile Healthcare Integration (AIMHI) as exhibiting the following characteristics: Sole provider: Exclusive market rights to furnish emergency and non-emergency ambulance service are granted to a sole and often competitively selected provider for a specific population or service area. Control center operations: The ambulance provider has control of the dispatch center. Accountability: HPEMS systems have performance requirements that can result in financial penalties or replacement of the provider when the requirements are not met. Revenue maximization: HPEMS systems incorporate the business function into their operations, with the resulting understanding of the billing requirements and maximization of revenues from Medicare, Medicaid, and other third-party payors. Flexible production strat...
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