Triple Aim: Enhancing Healthcare Quality and Value Report

This report delves into the Triple Aim framework, a critical concept in healthcare that focuses on simultaneously improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of health care. The report highlights the importance of the framework in addressing the increasing demands on healthcare systems, particularly in the face of changing demographics and chronic illnesses. It emphasizes the framework's ability to enhance healthcare quality, population health, and the overall value delivered. The report references key studies and articles, demonstrating how the Triple Aim contributes to reduced hospital admissions and emergency room visits, while also creating a foundation for managing diverse populations and reducing health disparities. It underscores the significance of the framework in achieving comprehensive, accessible, and patient-centered care at an affordable cost.

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Triple Aim
Triple aim is a framework which was developed so as to assist the healthcare system in
optimizing performance by using a wide range of metrics. With broader systems of linked goals,
triple aim framework is a three-pronged approach which helps in achieving high value
healthcare. According to Whittington, Nolan, Lewis, and Torres (2015), triple aim is a structure
that simultaneously pursuing three dimensions; improving the healthcare quality, improving the
population health and the achievement of value and financial sustainability. It achieves this by
highlighting the essence of parallel working on all of the three components and also recognizes
the interconnections between them.
Importance and How It Will Enable Improvements
Triple aim is very important because it ensures an exercise in balance which is subject to
specific policy constraints. The increasing change in population demographics and chronic
illnesses have result to increase in social and health services; however, there is lack of enough
resources to take care of these increasing demands. Triple aim therefore ensures that despite the
constraints, the health systems can still offer quality care to all the demanding populations.
Mery, Majumder, Brown and Dobrow (2017) argue that triple aim is very essential because it
reduces in-patient stays, hospital admissions as well as emergency room visits.
Triple aim will enable improvement by creating the right foundation for managing
different populations and the services at scale. It also reduces the existing health disparities by
ensuring that comprehensive, accessible and coordinated patient-centered care is offered to all
populations at an affordable cost.
References

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Mery, G., Majumder, S., Brown, A., & Dobrow, M. J. (2017). What do we mean when we talk
about the triple aim? A systematic review of evolving definitions and adaptations of the
framework at the health system level. Health Policy, 121(6), 629-636.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.03.014
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. doi:10.1111/1468-0009.12122