Healthcare: Triple Aim Report - Analysis, Discussion and Findings

This report examines the Triple Aim framework, a crucial concept in healthcare developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The framework focuses on three key areas: improving the patient experience, enhancing population health, and reducing healthcare costs. The report explores the rationale behind the Triple Aim, highlighting the rising costs of healthcare and the need for innovative approaches to improve access and efficiency. It also discusses how the Triple Aim can be implemented by healthcare organizations and how it relates to value-based systems. The report references the IHI and Whittington et al. (2015) to support its analysis. By focusing on these three dimensions, the Triple Aim aims to optimize the performance of the healthcare system, making it more effective, efficient, and patient-centered. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the Triple Aim, its significance, and its potential impact on the future of healthcare.

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Triple Aim
Triple Aim is a framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
(IHI). It describes an approach to optimizing the performance of the healthcare system. IHI
belief that the innovative designs must be developed in order to simultaneously persue three
different dimensions that is popularly known as triple aim. The triple aim mainly constitute
(i) Improvement of the patients’ overall experience of care (quality of care and increase in the
level of satisfaction)
(ii) Improvement in the overall health of the population
(iii) Reduction in the overall per capita cost of the healthcare
(Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2019)
Rationale behind Triple Aim
Under the US healthcare system, the 17% of the gross domestic product will grow to
20% amounting to the increase in the overall healthcare cost by the end of 2020. Moreover
with the increase in the percentage of the ageing population the overall expenditure of the
healthcare will increase further creating a global challenge in order to avail the healthcare
system. Thus in order to reduce the overall healthcare costs and to increase the overall
healthcare access, the application of triple aim is important (Whittington et al., 2015).
Triple Aim approach
Achievement of the Triple Aim will be crucial in order promote overall success of the
healthcare organizations and the healthcare approach that are moving towards the value-
based systems. The application of the Triple Aim approach also encourages the healthcare
service providers or the healthcare leaders to implement strategies for improving the overall

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health structure of the communities beyond the hospital or other in-patient based healthcare
settings (Whittington et al., 2015).
(Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2019)

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References
Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (2019). The IHI Triple Aim. Access date: 9th October
2019. Retrieved from:
http://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx
Whittington, J. W., Nolan, K., Lewis, N., & Torres, T. (2015). Pursuing the triple aim: the
first 7 years. The Milbank Quarterly, 93(2), 263-300.