Abstract
Performance is defined as the execution of a plan. The plan for all of us—health providers, health systems, and patients alike—is to transform healthcare for the better. The key to that transformation is transparency.
Physician performance transparency will effectively improve healthcare delivery by shifting the industry toward safer, evidenced-based, quality care. Unleashing the power of outcomes data will allow healthcare to become more efficient, with fewer readmissions and unnecessary procedures. Care in this new era of information is evolving into something that is more patient-centered, with well-informed consumers empowered to take a leading role in the direction of their own care.
Those health systems that lead in this new movement stand to benefit with higher quality care, lower costs, and improved reputations. Physicians will use performance information to improve their own practices. Health systems can turn quantifiable data into actionable information that will allow them to make smarter business decisions and gain a competitive advantage. And patients will be able to use an improved system of physician performance transparency to find the most appropriate providers for them. This will result in better outcomes and more satisfied patients.
By throwing back the curtain on quality measures, big data is poised to elevate the delivery of healthcare in this nation—creating safer, higher quality care, and healthier patients.
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Norris, D. (2017). Measurements and Analysis in Transforming Healthcare Delivery: Terminology and Applications—Physician Performance. In: Sax, H. (eds) Measurement and Analysis in Transforming Healthcare Delivery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46222-6_3
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