Perfect Care When is performance good enough

Perfect Care • When is performance good enough? – For you; for your family • Near-perfection is attainable even in health care • The question we all should be asking: – How soon can we achieve perfect care? • Within our organization • Across the entire health care system THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

An Organized Delivery System that Emphasizes Primary and Preventive Care and Is Patient-Centered 1. Guarantee Affordable Health Insurance Coverage 2. Implement Major Quality and Safety Improvements 3. Emphasize Primary, Preventive, and Patient-Centered Care THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Expand Primary Care and Preventive Services • Primary care is the provision of first contact, person-focused ongoing care over time that meets the health-related needs of people, referring only those too uncommon to maintain competence, and coordinates care when people receive services at other levels of care. – Barbara Starfield, MD THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Expand Primary Care and Preventive Services • Health is better in areas where there are more primary care physicians or more primary care services • People who receive care from a primary care physician are healthier • Costs of care lower in areas where there are more primary care physicians or more primary care services • More primary care is associated with more equitable care Source: Starfield, B. , L. Shi, and J. Macinko. 2005. “Contributions of Primary Care to Health Systems and Health. ” Milbank Quarterly 83(3): 457 -502. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

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Shared Decision-Making: An Important Aspect of Patient-Centered Care THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Why Is Shared Decision Making Important • Combines evidence-based practice with patient preferences • Many clinical decisions involve value judgments • Interventions have different benefits/ risks that patients value differently • There is no single right answer for everyone • Ethical principle of patient autonomy and legal requirement of informed consent • Health care providers cannot automatically infer what patients value, nor can they assume what care decisions are in patients' best interest. • Uncertain nature of clinical information THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Center for Shared Decision-Making Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center • Provides evidence-based tools to help patients understand tradeoffs of medical vs. surgical treatment given their preferences • Assists with health care decisions (e. g. , videotapes, booklets, websites) • Provides follow-up counseling with skilled staff Kate Clay, BA, MSN, Program Director • Generally results in lower rates of invasive procedures once the patient understands the tradeoffs THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Being There For The Patient • The importance of continuity • “After-hours” care THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Practice Has Arrangement for After-Hours Care to See Nurse/Doctor Percent 2006 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Increase Transparency and Reporting on Quality and Costs 1. Guarantee Affordable Health Insurance Coverage 2. Implement Major Quality and Safety Improvements 3. Emphasize Primary, Preventive, and Patient-Centered Care 4. Increase Transparency and Reporting on Quality and Costs THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

NCQA/HEDIS Experience • Ten years of measuring data has shown that measurement and public reporting leads to improvement: – Children today nearly three times more likely to have had all immunizations as in 1997 – Diabetics today twice as likely to have cholesterol controlled (<130 mg/d. L) as in 1998 – More than 96% of cardiac patients prescribed betblockers after a heart attack (up from 62% in 1997) THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Source: NCQA, “The State of Health Care Quality 2006, ” 2006.

Improvements in Use of Beta Blockers After a Heart Attack Source: National Committee for Quality Assurance, The State of Health Care Quality: 2006, Washington, D. C. : NCQA, 2006. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Expand the Use of Interoperable Information Technology 1. Guarantee Affordable Health Insurance Coverage 2. Implement Major Quality and Safety Improvements 3. Emphasize Primary, Preventive, and Patient-Centered Care 5. Expand the Use of Interoperable Information Technology 4. Increase Transparency and Reporting on Quality and Costs THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Electronic Medical Records and Information Systems • • Reduce duplicate tests Reduce hospital admissions by having information accessible to emergency room physicians Improve patient care Provide decision support for physicians and patients Facilitate “referrals, ” secure transfer of responsibility Reduce medical errors Promote better management of chronic conditions and care coordination – Registries – Performance information – Facilitated by interoperability THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Over 80% Medication Errors Prevented with Computerized Order Entry System Source: Adapted with permission from D. W. Bates et. al. 1999. “The Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Error Prevention. ” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 6(4): 313 -21. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

U. S. Adoption of Health Information Technology Range: Medium or High Quality Surveys Best Estimates: High Quality Surveys EHR: ambulatory 17% to 25% 17% Solo practitioners 12. 9% to 13% Large groups* 19% - 57% 39% EHR: hospitals 16%† - 59%†† None CPOE: hospitals 4% to 21% 5% THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Source: Presentation by Ashish Jha. “Health IT Adoption: a cross-national comparison. ” June 26, 2006.

Primary Care Practices with Advanced Information Capacity Percent reporting 7 or more out of 14 functions* *Count of 14: EMR, EMR access other doctors, outside office, patient; routine use electronic ordering tests, prescriptions, access test results, access hospital records; computer for reminders, Rx alerts, prompt tests results; easy to list diagnosis, medications, patients due for care. Source: 2006 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Network Med. Com – The Danish Health Data Network GP´s with EDI : Specialists with EDI: Hospitals with EDI : Pharmacies with EDI: 2150 = 98 % 639 = 80 % Prescriptions 1289023 87% 1039105 = 73% 63 = 100% 331 = 100 % Doctors on Call: 15 = 100 % Health Insurance : 17 = 100 % Disch. Letters 1054314 85 % 682923 == 88 % 79 messages /min Lab. reports 844528 98 543040 = 82 % Referrals 115597 = 60 % Reimbursement 21049 = 92 % Lab Requests 44385 = 15 % Source: I. Johansen, “What Makes a High Performance Health Care System and How Do We Get There? Denmark, ” Presentation to the Commonwealth Fund International Symposium, November 3, 2006. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Reward Performance for Quality and Efficiency 1. Guarantee Affordable Health Insurance Coverage 2. Implement Major Quality and Safety Improvements 3. Emphasize Primary, Preventive, and Patient-Centered Care 5. Expand the Use of Interoperable Information Technology 4. Increase Transparency and Reporting on Quality and Costs 6. Reward Performance for Quality and Efficiency THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Medicare/Premier Hospital Quality P 4 P Demonstration • First year results showed significant improvement; composite score increased – – – AMI: 87% to 91% Heart Failure: 65% to 74% Pneumonia: 69% to 79% CABG: 85% to 90% Hip/knee replacement: 85% to 90% • Patients receiving better care showed lower mortality (AMI, CHF) • Cost savings for hospitals (AMI, Pneumonia, CABG, Hip/Knee) and Medicare THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Primary Care Doctors’ Reports of Any Financial Incentives Targeted on Quality of Care Percent reporting any financial incentive* *Receive of have potential to receive payment for: clinical care targets, high patient ratings, managing chronic disease/complex needs, preventive care, or QI activities Source: 2006 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Encourage Public-Private Collaboration to Achieve Simplification, More Effective Change 1. Guarantee Affordable Health Insurance Coverage 2. Implement Major Quality and Safety Improvements 5. Expand the Use of Interoperable Information Technology 4. Increase Transparency and Reporting on Quality and Costs 6. Reward Performance for Quality and Efficiency 3. Emphasize Primary, Preventive, and Patient-Centered Care 7. Encourage Public -Private Collaboration to Achieve Simplification, More Effective Change THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

There Has To Be Leadership • Federal laggership • Collaborating publicprivate groups can lead – – IHA (California) MHQP (Massachusetts) HQA, AQA IHI’s new 5 million lives campaign THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

IHA (Integrated Healthcare Association) - California • Collaboration of multiple stakeholders with a neutral convener – – – Purchasers – Pacific Business Group on Health California Association of Physician Groups (225) California health plans (7) Consumer Groups State of California Department of Managed Health Care & Office of the Patient Advocate – California Health. Care Foundation – Rewarding Results grant – NCQA (National Committee on Quality Assurance) THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

IHA - California Agreement on measures (technical quality, patient experience, use of health information technology) • Competitive stakeholders can collaborate on aligning incentives Agreement to tie P 4 P to the common measures; but no attempt to agree on payment formulae Results • Year over year improvement • Scatter in performance – This isn’t sufficient to achieve perfection THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) • • MHQP – A broad-based coalition of physicians, hospitals, health plans, purchasers, and government agencies – Seeks to improve health care through collaboration among all stakeholders – Common quality agenda, including shared guidelines and tools, as well as becoming a source for comparative health quality information Public Reporting – In 2006, started Medical Group level reporting of 15 quality measures and patient satisfaction measures – Moving forward, will incorporate Medicare/Medicaid data (designated as one of the 6 Ambulatory Quality Alliance pilots) – Beginning to explore new efficiency measures and their role in public reporting THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Achieving a High Performance Health System: What You Can Do THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

• What You Must Do – Take An Active Role In Improving Your Own Care – Take An Active Role In Improving Care In Your Health System – See The Positive Side To Change • What We All Must Stop Doing – Protect Our Turf (there is still a lot of turf to go around) THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Achieving a High Performance Health System: What You Can Do • Advocate for affordable health insurance for all • Establish and publicize policy on discounted care for uninsured and low-income • Invest in chronic care improvement, transitional care • Share and help spread best practices; join collaboratives to implement proven quality and patient safety measures • Improve patient-centered care; survey and respond to patient concerns • Support transparency; public reporting of clinical quality, patientcentered care, and efficiency • Accelerate adoption of IT; ensure patient access to an integrated personal health record • Participate in demonstrations that reward high quality and efficient care; be actively involved in design of incentivized payment systems • Consider options for better coordination and integration of care delivery; shared accountability for patient care through physicianhospital organizations; accountable medical homes THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

Thank You! Karen Davis, President, The Commonwealth Fund Anne Gauthier, Senior Policy Director, Commission on a High Performance Health System, The Commonwealth Fund Tony Shih, MD, Senior Program Officer, Quality Improvement and Efficiency, The Commonwealth Fund Elizabeth Sturla, Executive Assistant, The Commonwealth Fund THE COMMONWEALTH FUND

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