Originally published on February
28, 2017 at www.lmshealthpro.com.
By Kristen Brady
The movement from volume to value
based care, as well as alternative payment models are going to require
institutions to discover new methods of increasing productivity.
"In healthcare today, an increase in productivity is a skill" writes Joe Flower in an article for
Hospitals and Health Networks.
If you change your structure of payment, be certain your
productivity metric will match it. It’ll make it simpler to notice productivity
problems. Flower utilizes the example of an institution which moves a pain
office from a model that is fee-for-service to a per-employee-per-month
agreement for a warehousing business. If the institution performs an MRI on all
patients, it’ll raise costs and lower productivity.
Redesign all EHRs to reflect clinical workflow. Many systems
are not built around patient needs or clinician workflow. The poor interface
and poor structure causes productivity problems.
Be certain new technologies help with productivity. Newer
technology, like robotics and artificial intelligence, actually can slow
productivity if it makes clinicians adapt to this technology rather than being
certain the technology meets the necessities of clinical workflow. However, if
utilized in the right way, it may decrease administrative tasks and mistakes.
Flower states great examples of technologies which have increased productivity
are IBM Watson and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Oncology Expert Advisor.
And last but not least, lobby against all increased
regulations. It is hard for any institution to completely comply with all the
regulations presently in place. Joe Flower advocates for providers to organize
and lobby to persuade state and federal agencies and additional regulators to
take data from a standardized information set derived right from each
institution’s electronic records.
For more details contact Leading Management Solutions at (407)
674-1916.
Leading Management Solutions helps medical practice
leaders identify ways to improve operations to increase revenue, employee
engagement, and patient satisfaction. Learn more about us at www.lmshealthpro.com.
About the Author:
Kristen Brady is the
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