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The Crushing Cost Of Tracking Healthcare Quality
One Hospital’s Story.
As the United States shifts from prioritizing fee-for-service reimbursement to value-based care, measuring the quality of care is becoming increasingly important. However, within our complex healthcare system, tracking quality is no easy feat.
The following article by Forbes calls for standardization in quality metrics. It describes how claims data, chart-abstracted data, and patient survey data are used to analyze quality, but how difficult, time-consuming, and costly it is for hospitals to make sense of the results from these different sources.
Learn more here.
Where are all the Nurses?
Hospitals, advocates disagree on crisis
"Without first fixing the workplace problems in U.S. hospitals, Franks said that any nurse recruitment efforts are essentially building on quicksand — they may get people in the door, but they lack the foundation to succeed."
Healthcare Dive's recent article takes a deep dive into America's current nursing shortage in hospitals. Covering everything from hospitals struggling to higher despite the nursing talent pool growing to how hospitals can win nurses back, the article discusses differences in viewpoints, causes for the shortage, and solutions for the future.
Learn more here.
Solving the Productivity Paradox: Healthcare
Spencer Dorn, Vice Chair & Professor of Medicine, UNC, offered his take on a recent New Yorker article as it pertains to healthcare.
On LinkedIn, Dorn posed the question: “Is the core problem with electronic health records that they myopically focus on individual tools rather than workflows?”
He postulates that, “This certainly rings true in healthcare, where individual clinicians struggle to keep pace with an endless barrage of electronic messages and tasks, the bulk of which could be at least partially handled by other teammates.”
HURC is uniquely poised to overcome the burdens placed upon clinicians - with the ultimate goal of empowering doctors and nurses to focus solely on patient care. Dorn ends his post by stating: “to sustain our workforce and provide better care – and especially if we hope to harness AI to automate tasks – we must reevaluate and reorganize our work.”
At HURC, we agree - and we’re poised to implement these solutions today. Read Dorn’s full post here - and Contact HURC today.