Improved quality of care (e.g., more preventive
care, better planned care, better clinical outcomes,
lower mortality) Decreased health care costs.
Improved patient experience. Improved provider
experience.
Project Assumptions
Practice organizational structure (e.g., independent, affiliated, integrated); practice
environment (e.g., patient demographics and health literacy, practice size leadership); health care environment (e.g.,
payment approaches, general practice patterns, level of market competition and integration); community resources (e.g.,
availability of social services, linkages between health care delivery and local public health programs); existing
incentives, supports, and initiatives
Examples:
· Funding
· Staff
· Time
· Health IT
· Training and
Technical
Assistance
(e.g., learning
Communities,
Practice
Facilitation)
Comprehensive care
• Regular, timely
communications
between providers
on care team
Patient-centered care
• Increased provider
understanding of
patient needs and
preferences
• Increased patient
and family
engagement
Coordinated care
• Less duplication
and redundancy
of labs and other
services
• Increased linkages
between practice
and community
services
Accessible care
• Same-day
appointments,
longer hours,
shorter wait times
Inputs
Resource allocation in terms of personnel, and money.
Outputs
Study to find out the decision making processes involved, identification of all relevant professional stakeholders and analysis to find out which structures can be done away with
Project Outcomes/Goals
This will have resulted in the identification of which structures do result in the different decision making processes and recommendations on how to go about it. Increased awareness on how to improve for decision making, therefore more efficient healthcare. Increased involvement between relevant professionals.
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