At a time when healthcare expenditures are on the rise, a new concept for care delivery is taking roots -- value-based healthcare or the patient health outcome per dollar spent. This model of care delivery focuses on the outcome delivered by the care provider rather than just the cost of delivering it or the financial success of the stakeholders.
Prasanthi Potluri
Editor
Asian Hospital & Healthcare
Management
Healthcare organisations are redefining value and have been forced to think in new ways about the process of care delivery.
Yosef D Dlugacz
Sr. Vice President and
Chief of Clinical Quality
Education & Research
Krasnoff
Quality Management
Institute
USA
Value-based healthcare is an approach to providing care that aims to restrict the growth in healthcare costs while maintaining or improving quality. The United States Medicare and Medicaid programs, along with a few pioneering employers and...
Gloria N Eldridge
Senior Analyst and
Project Director
Strategic Innovations
for Affordable
Sustainable Healthcare:
A Model for
Health System Reform
Altarum Institute
USA
Operations management is the strategic implementation of programmes, techniques, and tools for reducing costs and improving quality....
Shakti Kumar Gupta
HOD,
Hospital Administration &
Medical Superintendent
All India Institute of
Medical Sciences
Dr. R P Centre for
Ophthalamic Sciences
New Delh, India
For those who follow news in the healthcare IT world, not too many days pass without some mention of a health information exchange (HIE) being formed,...
Jason Hess
General Manager
of Clinical Research
Mark Allphin
Research Director
KLAS, USA
This article will explore ways to maximize MR and CT patient throughput through the use of improved facility layouts, including optimizing the location, number and size of support spaces.
Robert Junk
President
Scott Branton
Senior Associate
RAD-Planning
USA
Advances in cross sectional imaging using CT and MR have significantly changed the clinical practice of neuroradiology over the last decade.
Peter Corr
Department of Radiology
Faculty of Medicine and
Health Sciences
UAE University
UAE
LBP is one of the most common pain complaint and usually one of the hardest syndromes to treat. Interventional pain management offers an opportunity to assist in the diagnosis and management of back pain.
Rasha Snan Jabri
Adjunct
Assistant Professor
Department of
Anesthesiology and
Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
UAE
This article speaks about growth in the healthcare delivery industry, medical technology industry growing at a healthy pace of 16-18%, especially in few sectors like cardiology, growing at high pace of 35-40 percent.
Sandeep Sinha
Director
Healthcare Practice
Frost & Sullivan
South Asia and
Middle East
Many health systems turn to identity and access management technologies (IAM) to better address the workflow needs of providers. An IAM system is only as strong and complete as the processes in place to support the system and the staff who implement the policies.
Jonathan Leviss
Director
Clinical Solutions for
Microsoft Health
Solutions Group
USA
The Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human, sparked efforts to improve patient safety in the US. Recent data suggest, however, that adverse events persist.
Diane Pinakiewicz
President
National Patient
Safety Foundation
USA
In 2010, the World Health Organization launched a series of reviews of carbon mitigation strategies in five key economic sectors.
Walt Vernon
CEO
Amy Jarvis
Environmental Performance
Engineer
Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch
USA
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