Transitioning to outcomes-based healthcare is an industry wide goal. While some health systems, such as Texas Children’s Hospital, are in the process of making the switch (and doing it successfully), many systems don’t even know where to begin.
Despite the challenges of achieving outcomes-based healthcare, it is essential for surviving the transition from fee-for-service (FFS) to value-based care. Systems can overcome the top three challenges associated with making the switch (lack of analytics, lack of access to information, and inappropriate organizational structure) by focusing on the most important success factors:
Analytics
Multidisciplinary Teams
Armed with an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) to make data-driven decisions about the best outcomes improvement goals to pursue, and permanent multidisciplinary teams responsible for continuously improving care, systems can start making the switch to outcomes-based healthcare.