Value-Based Care Insights New Episode NOW On-Demand
A coherent and consistent approach to evaluating and optimizing surgical patients not only minimizes avoidable harm and complications but also impacts inefficiencies such as case cancellation, delayed case starts, and turnover rates. Furthermore, avoidable complications are becoming more costly due to post-acute care utilization, readmissions, and never events. Facilities, surgeons, anesthesiologists, patients and families all have a common goal of improving outcomes from the start of the surgical journey.  On this episode Dan sits down with Alex Hannenberg, former President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts School of Medicine, and Art Boudreaux, Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Gain insights into the importance of aligning and standardizing perioperative processes, and how to leverage data to reduce inefficiencies and costs, and improve patient outcomes.
Key Takeaways:
- Data is essential for standardizing the surgical experience and improving perioperative performance such as operating room efficiency, readmission, post-acute care utilization, and other clinical and financial outcomes.
- Best practices, such as the perioperative surgical home and other models, will be explored as a mechanism to achieve these goals.
- Establishing a governance structure to develop and monitor improvement strategies is a powerful approach to streamline perioperative care and realize performance targets.
About The Show
Value-Based Care Insights is a radio show on Healthcare NOW Radio, that explores how to optimize the performance of programs to meet the demands of an increasing value-based care payment environment. It is hosted by Dan Marino (@DjmarinoHD) and highlights recognized experts in the field and within Lumina Health Partners (@LuminaHP).
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