Focus Areas Within Care Continuum
Hospitals and their constituents must plan for and ensure efficiencies in processes and practices while maintaining the highest quality of care. It's not simply a matter of lowering costs; it is a matter of redesigning care practices to ensure best practiced, cost outcomes in everything the organization does. This is defined as how to reduce expenses while improving quality; "bending the cost curve" and access to information which provides visibility into business analytics to improve decision making.Community
Engaging the communityemployees, patients, the public in the care continuum requires thoughtful culture planning, augmentation and building.
Compliance
New processes and practices mean awareness of new compliance measures.
Patient Flow
Holistic patient flow initiatives are imperative to successful care continuum practices that need organizational development, expansion and launching.
Safety & Quality
Maintaining the best possible patient care must include careful attention to safety and quality practices.
Strategy
Reducing expenses and improving quality take an array of tactics to promote a successful care continuum. But before a tactic can be implemented, plan and execute effective strategy.
