Many organizations are responding to external pressures to transform the delivery of care and increase its value proposition. Quality improvement is ramping up. How can you ensure changes are an improvement from the patient perspective? This webinar shares a framework that is useful to organizations exploring ways to engage patient and family advisors as quality improvement partners. Examples of successful collaborations in the ambulatory setting and key steps to ensure success will be highlighted including the positive results achieved.
The safety imperative is paramount in healthcare today. Our systems do not produce the clinical, safety, or quality outcomes patients and families deserve and health care professionals seek to achieve. Changing payment models are tying reimbursement to value. Organizations across the continuum are striving to transform the system of care to produce value. Partnering with patient and family advisors (PFA) to improve quality is a strategy some organizations have embraced. The PFAs perspectives, ideas, and willingness to seek mutually beneficial solutions is appreciated by many.
As much as 30% of care delivered in the U.S. is duplicative, unnecessary, and has limited benefits to patients.
Why does this happen?
Because healthcare providers and patients are busy. It may seem challenging to take on a new initiative like the Choosing Wisely implementation, even when it can decrease the prevalence of medical overuse. However, it will ultimately save time, lower costs, and most importantly, provide patients with the best, most appropriate care.
The next PFCC.Connect virtual informal conversation will be held next Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT on Building and Sustaining Diverse PFACs.
Life is about choices -- we make them all day, every day. Especially in healthcare.
On May 9th, PCPCC in collaboration with ABIMF and IPFCC is hosting a webinar about the importance of engaging patients and families in the Choosing Wisely program, and how this process can empower patients to make more informed decisions, improve outcomes and transform practices.
PCPCC, in collaboration with IPFCC, is hosting a short webinar (30-45 minutes). A Patient Advisor who is working with their organization on health literacy issues together with a practice representative bringing the clinical perspective will share their story of efforts and outcomes to improve health literacy and patient engagement. Attendees will have opportunities to share their experience and perspectives as well as asking questions.
