Patient Outcomes

Due to the plethora of evidence of the value of transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based funding mechanisms in healthcare, funders/payers are increasingly looking to mechanisms providers are paid based on patient health outcomes. Effectively, this means that rewards are given for helping patients improve their health, reducing readmission rates, adhering to medicine and feeling like the result of ...

Health organisations worldwide are recognising the value of incorporating Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs), or Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), into their clinical healthcare practices. In particular, orthopaedic clinics are prime candidates for PRO-enhanced care as much of the success of orthopaedic procedures relies on the patient's commitment to follow their recovery programme. However, many clinicians object to the use of ...

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are becoming increasingly popular for payers and regulators to assess the value of services being delivered. This can create tension, if the clinical community feels they are being forced down a particular road that is not conducive to better decision making or that cuts across the relationship between doctor and patient. It doesn’t have ...

Healthcare professionals are always looking for effective and safe ways to improve the level of care, comfort and wellbeing of their patients. Whether it’s the most leading-edge gene therapy or hospital beds with a wireless network of sensors designed to reduce decubitus ulcers (bed sores), we all want to find ways to incrementally improve the quality and success ...

While the benefits of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programmes are well established and significant, at Cemplicity we often hear frustrations from health providers about how they can’t agree on how best to deliver PROMs across their organisation. The challenges arise because PROMs programmes are typically trying to solve two valid, but often conflicting, objectives: System-level quality improvement, value ...

There are literally thousands of survey tools out there designed to allow patients to self-report on their own health outcomes. Their names don’t roll off the tongue – consider PROMIS-29, CAW, AQOL-4D, EORTC QLCC-30 … It’s pretty clear that these names originated from the academic community, not from marketing. That said, there was a healthy dose of dark ...

I spend much of my time talking to clinicians and hospital managers about the benefits of asking patients about their own health through patient reported outcome measures programmes. However, we also encounter scepticism that, by enabling patients to rate their own health, better outcomes will be achieved. A new study, Basch (2017 pp.197-198), shines a clear light on ...