Making decisions without reliable data is a costly and indefensible mistake in today’s healthcare environment. Clinical skills and professional tenure alone will not improve the performance of hospital systems to meet the changing expectations of value-based purchasing. The hospital’s performance is dependent upon much more than the average FIM™ change or CMI average and yet managers fail to influence performance…
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With all the discussion of the CMS value-based purchasing initiatives, many in our industry still don’t see how this relates to the tasks of rehabilitating patients and improving functional abilities. The value of improving a patient’s ability to brush his teeth or dress her lower body is different for each patient and thought to be as the ad says, “priceless.”…
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Last week, the Dartmouth Atlas Project published its report “Improving Patient Decision-Making in Health Care,” and pointed to the disparity of existing practices in the way decisions were made affecting patient care across the country. The challenge that provider decisions were more influential than patient preferences, in determining what care was provided, is a dilemma of historical proportions that apparently…
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We’re excited to launch the MediServe blog, a community that provides a wealth of industry knowledge and resourceful information. The blog is also a place for you to engage with MediServe contributors and the rehabilitation and respiratory communities. Contributing to the blog are some of MediServe’s most valued subject matter experts. Bob Habasevich, Darlene D’Altorio-Jones and Darren Manley are the…
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