Quality improvement in population health systems

Abstract Quality improvement methods have achieved large sustainable changes in health care quality and health outcomes. Transforming health care into a population health system requires methods for innovation and improvement that can work across professions and sectors. It may be possible to replic...

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Published in:Healthcare : the journal of delivery science and innovation 2015-12, Vol.3 (4), p.231-234
Main Authors: Inkelas, Moira, McPherson, Marianne E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community system
Delivery of Health Care - standards
Humans
Internal Medicine
Learning health system
Medical Assistance
Population Health
Process improvement
Quality Improvement
Quality of Health Care
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Summary:Abstract Quality improvement methods have achieved large sustainable changes in health care quality and health outcomes. Transforming health care into a population health system requires methods for innovation and improvement that can work across professions and sectors. It may be possible to replicate improvement successes in healthcare settings within and across the broader systems of social, educational, and other human services that influence health outcomes in communities. Improvement methods could translate the rhetoric of collaboration, integration and alignment into practice across the fragmented health and human service sectors in the U.S.
ISSN:2213-0764
2213-0772
DOI:10.1016/j.hjdsi.2015.06.001