AJMC: 7 Policies in the Healthcare Environment that Affect the Impact of Accountable Care
Submitted By Patty Jamison, Created 11/17/2017 - 17:53
- Governance and culture, which requires sufficient leadership to shift an organization’s focus toward achieving better patient outcomes and value
- Financial readiness, which makes it possible for an organization to bear risk and reallocate financial resources
- Health information technology, or the infrastructure and analytics needed to support patient-centered care
- Patient risk assessment and stratification, which makes it possible to target interventions
- Patient engagement, or embedding the patient perspective across organizational processes
- Quality and process improvement, or activities linked to performance measures and mechanisms that provide feedback on performance to provide better care
- Care coordination, or integrated workflows to support continuity of care
Source: AJMC: New Framework Provides Direction for Implementing Accountable Care Reform
Source URL: http://www.ajmc.com/focus-of-the-week/new-framework-provides...