Geisinger Health System: achieving the potential of system integration through innovation, leadership, measurement, and incentives

Geisinger Health System: achieving the potential of system integration through innovation, leadership, measurement, and incentives

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Case study. Organized health care delivery system
Contributor(s):
Douglas McCarthy.
Kimberly Mueller.
Wrenn, Jennifer.
Commonwealth Fund.
Publication:
[New York, NY] : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated -- organization & administration
Health Maintenance Organizations -- organization & administration
Leadership
Organizational Case Studies
Organizational Innovation
Systems Integration
Pennsylvania
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Geisinger Health System is a physician-led, not-for-profit, integrated delivery system serving an area with approximately 2.6 million people in northeastern and central Pennsylvania with innovative products and services designed to drive higher performance. Geisinger's leaders believe that the organization can simultaneously improve quality, satisfaction, and efficiency only by redesigning and reengineering the delivery of care. This philosophy is epitomized by ProvenCare, a portfolio of products (many of which are package-priced) for which care processes have been redesigned to reliably administer a coordinated bundle of evidence-based best practices. Use of the ProvenCare model has improved clinical outcomes while decreasing resource utilization. Fundamental to Geisinger's success are its vision of becoming a national model for care delivery, the leadership to achieve that vision reinforced with a performance-based compensation system strategically aligned with specific goals every year, and timely feedback using an advanced electronic health record to measure progress toward those goals.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101537916 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101537916