January 23, 2020 in Resoundingly Human
Working smarter, not harder, to improve healthcare transparency
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Healthcare is a complex, often overwhelming subject, and the effort to match patients with providers based on patient needs and provider ability, known as the patient provider alignment (or PPA) problem, has consistently proven difficult to tackle. In the past, this was thought to have been exacerbated by the limited availability of information available to the public regarding providers and their performance, which could help facilitate better patient provider matches. However, despite efforts to increase transparency by making healthcare data open and available to the public, the PPA problem still persists. In this episode, I am joined by Soroush Saghafian professor with Harvard University, whose research in the INFORMS journal Operations Research, “Can public reporting cure healthcare? The role of quality transparency in improving patient-provider alignment,” takes a deep dive into exploring this issue and offering some potential solutions.
Want to learn more? Check out the additional resources and links listed below for more information about what was discussed in this episode.
“Can public reporting cure healthcare? The role of quality transparency in improving patient-provider alignment,” Operations Research
"The role of quality transparency in healthcare: Challenges and potential solutions," National Academy of Medicine
Links to additional media coverage of this topic:
- "Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare System May Not Be Always Better," www.news-medical.net
- "Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Better," INFORMS
- "New Research Explores on Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector," Industry Global News 24
- "Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Better," Global Health News Wire
- "Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Better," American Association for the Advancement of Science
- "Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Better," Managed Healthcare Executives
Ashley Kilgore has more than a decade of experience in nonprofit communications and public relations, to include print, radio, video, and web. Contact Ashley Kilgore.