Clinical Excellence
Kaiser Permanente Joins Intermountain and Mayo Clinic to Recommend Delivery System Reforms
Kaiser Permanente has partnered with Intermountain Healthcare and Mayo Clinic to outline a vision and action steps for reforming the United States' health care delivery system to one that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable.
As part of their work to inform the health care reform debate the group outlines a vision that would create value for patients and purchasers, and that would result in both better quality and lower cost over time.
The groups propose changes to the current system and call for all stakeholders to commit to the principle of centering care around the needs of the individual patient. Key tenets of that principle are:
- Care coordination and teamwork
- Choice
- Shared decision making
- Shared responsibility
- Promotion of primary care
- Patient-centered use of information technology
- Evidence-based care
Payment reform is addressed, highlighting the need for payment mechanisms that financially reward providers who deliver value. It is recommended that this be achieved by:
- Pay for Value
- Transparency
- Science of health care delivery
- Innovation
- Professional liability reform.
A 5-year timeline is laid out, and various pay-for-value scenarios are offered for consideration.
For more, read "Delivery System Reform: Action Steps and Pay-For-Value Approaches." (PDF) You also can add your name to a growing list of endorsers of Delivery Reform System.
