Adopting value enhancement strategies in healthcare

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Why do you think it is important to adopt value enhance strategies in the current healthcare environment?

Value Enhancement Strategies in Healthcare are important due to the limited availability of resources it is important for cost effectiveness and utilization of these limited resources. More importantly implementing Value Enhancement Strategies helps to reduce the burden on the Medicare and Medicaid outlays thus improving access to more individuals.

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"To a rapidly changing environment, health‐care organizations are adopting a variety of value enhancement strategies. Typically characterized as quality improvement activities, these strategies generally include efforts to improve: clinical effectiveness; financial performance; consumer satisfaction; employee satisfaction; and risk management/quality assurance activities. Early efforts involved the use of continuous quality improvement (CQI) or total quality management (TQM) strategies with a focus on improving financial performance, while clinical effectiveness has been a greater emphasis more recently. This study examines the manner in which 14 US health‐care systems, noted for innovation in quality improvement and value enhancement, are utilizing these ...