Developing Value in Health Care

Running head: DEVELOPING VALUE IN HEALTH CARE
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................ 3
Cleveland Clinic approach for creating high-value health services............................3
Goal definition and division of the organization in practice departments...................3
Rationale................................................................................................................. 4
Measuring outcomes and cost.................................................................................... 4
Cost calculating system.............................................................................................. 5
Patient engagement, Education and treatment..........................................................5
Initiative in increasing patient access and partnering with community......................6
Initiative of transition from volume to value...............................................................7
Initiative of focusing on health not just a disease treatment......................................8
Factors that could impede implementation of the recomedation...............................8
Conclusion.................................................................................................................. 9
References............................................................................................................... 11
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Introduction
Health services in large metropolitan hospitals of New South Wales have to create a well-
strategized focus of the quality of health services they offer to the people. Delivering quality
health care services will probably attract a change in the model of the operations of the hospital.
Based on the knowledge obtained from the study of the mechanism of health care conduct in a
benchmarking assessment Cleveland clinic model has the best answer to efficiency in health
services.
Cleveland Clinic approach for creating high-value health
services
Medical care just like any other field of society has undergone a dramatic change. The change
has been attributed by the exponentially growing information access and technology. Technology
has helped the health care practitioners and management to do and achieve more within the
constrained budget of time, money and pieces of machinery (Burwell, 2015).
Goal definition and division of the organization in practice
departments
Cleveland clinics have substantially invested in the division of work and specialization. The
medical care is structured and organized as per the needs of their clients based on the difference
in the attention patients need. There is a big difference in the medication procedure carried out
on a diabetic, vision impaired, and cancer infection. Division integrates and narrows down the
treatment process hence improving the value of treatment in terms of attention and expertise. The
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integrated practice units provide the patient and the keens or the family with knowledge on the
prescribed medication and prevention measures beside treatment of the disease diagnosed
(Bahar, Hashem, Tekautz, Worley, Tang, Blank, & Wolff, 2017).
Further, Cleveland clinic appreciates the psychological torture related to illness; to this effect, the
Cleveland Clinic offers psychological counseling to the persons affected to encourage them to
handle the condition. The expert teammates work in collaboration meet both formally and
informally to review the information and diagnostic data; This reduces the time consumed over
the treatment process thus increasing the treatment value the patients get at the end of treatment
process (Farver, Smalling, & Stoller, 2016).
Rationale
Division of the medical care provision into practice sections fitted with experts has helped in
easing the services provided and hence an increase in the value since the patients are easily
matched to the level of expertise that fits the services he needs. It also eases the delivery of the
medical services by the practitioner through interaction with patients of almost similar infections.
Measuring outcomes and cost
Assessing the outcome of the patient has been a vital building block of increasing and evaluating
the value of treatment in Cleveland clinic (Rabinovich, Bartholomew, Wilks, Tripp, McCrae, &
Khorana, 2016). Measuring the patient’s outcome has been initially done on the grounds of the
mortality rate and the volume of services offered. However, this mode of patients’ outcome
measure has been abandoned on the argument that medical services offer and efficiency can’t be
evaluated based on demand. It is, however, critical to measure the outcome of the service offered
by Cleveland clinic but the rate of readmission suggests the services are of high value. Cleveland
clinic ensures delivery of long term services. A knee joint cup lasting for fifteen years compared
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