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  • Seminars in Oncology Nursing

Transformation of Health Care—Perspectives of Opinion Leaders

By: Joanne Disch, Thomas W. Feeley, Diana J. Mason, Richard L. Schilsky, Ellen L. Stovall and Shelley Fuld Nasso
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Abstract

"What Health System Transformations Do You Believe Are Necessary for the Future of Health Care?" We need to transform to a true value-based health care delivery system. That means organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We need to do more team-based medicine and to better integrate specialty care with primary care. We need to be doing a better job measuring health outcomes that matter to patients, which includes patient-reported outcomes and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a better job measuring, reporting and controlling the costs of health care so that our economy can improve and so that patients can make informed decisions. We must move away from fee-for-service reimbursement, which incentivizes doing more, and begin paying for good outcomes. Health care organizations need to stop duplicating every service and have centers of excellence with high-volume experts. Finally, we need better health information technology systems to facilitate knowledge transmission and communication.

Keywords

Perspective; Health Disorders; Performance Improvement; Health Care And Treatment; Transformation; Health Industry

Citation

Disch, Joanne, Thomas W. Feeley, Diana J. Mason, Richard L. Schilsky, Ellen L. Stovall, and Shelley Fuld Nasso. "Transformation of Health Care—Perspectives of Opinion Leaders." Seminars in Oncology Nursing 32, no. 2 (May 2016): 172–182.

About The Author

Thomas W. Feeley

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