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Puget Sound Health Alliance
| Outcomes |
Healthier People |
Greater Value |
| Goal |
Improved Quality of Care |
| Strategies |
Useful Information |
Consistent Incentives |
| Methods |
- Agreement on effective treatments
- Agreement on how to measure value
- Public report on local healthcare
- Useful resources and tools
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- Recognition
- Benefit design
- Value-based purchasing
- Pay for performance for providers
- Technology adoption
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Creating the Tools and Motivation to Support Quality Improvement |
Notes:
Here's another way of looking at the purpose of the Alliance.
One person called the Alliance approach as "using quality improvement as a cost containment strategy"
No doubt about it, we are focused on getting more effective care, more affordable care and greater value for every dollar spent on health care
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