Pursuing the Triple Aim: Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs

Citation

(2012), "Pursuing the Triple Aim: Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 25 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2012.06225eaa.013

Pursuing the Triple Aim: Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs

Pursuing the Triple Aim: Seven Innovators Show the Way to Better Care, Better Health, and Lower Costs

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 25, Issue 5

Maureen Bisognano and Charles Kenney,Jossey Bass,May 2012 ISBN: 978-1-11820-572-3

Keywords: Healthcare improvement, Quality patient care, Improved health for populations, Affordable healthcare

Written by the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a leading health care journalist, the book answers the question: how can we achieve the Triple Aim – quality care for every patient, improved health for the population, while lowering per capita costs? Innovative health care organizations around the country are demonstrating answers with breakthrough solutions to some of the toughest and most expensive challenges in health care. Pursuing the Triple Aim shares compelling stories that are emerging in locations ranging from Pittsburgh to Seattle, from Boston to Oakland, focused on topics including improving quality and lowering costs in primary care; applying challenging chronic disease control measures with notable outcomes; leveraging employer buying power to improve quality, reduce waste, and drive down cost; paying for care under an innovative contract that compensates for quality rather than quantity; and much more. The authors describe these innovations, prescribe a model for their spread, and measure the potential impact of these changes on both the health of our nation and on cost savings.

Contents include:

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   Acknowledgments.

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   HealthPartners: the care model process and continuous healing relationships.

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   Intel and Virginia Mason Medical Center: marketplace collaboratives for better care.

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   CareOregon and affiliated clinics: producing health, changing lives.

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   The alternative quality contract: a payment method supporting the Triple Aim.

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   Bellin Health: improving population health with the right care at the right place and the right cost.

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   The patient and family centered care methodology and practice: improving patient experience and clinical outcomes.

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   Kaiser permanente: embedding improvement capacity into organizational DNA.

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   No excuses: effective leadership to achieve the Triple Aim.

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    Epilogue: innovation everywhere.

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    References.