Proving your worth. Information systems can help hospitals and physicians document quality.

Area of Science:

• Healthcare Management
• Health Economics
• Health Services Research

Background:

• Corporations require premium health benefits to attract and retain skilled employees in a global economy.
• There is increasing demand for proof of quality and cost-effectiveness in employee health benefit plans.
• Clinical performance information systems are emerging as a tool to meet these demands.

Purpose of the Study:

• To highlight the role of clinical performance information systems in healthcare purchasing and delivery.
• To introduce the concepts of medical care value purchasing and medical care value enhancement.
• To emphasize the need for both corporate purchasers and healthcare providers to adapt to data-driven healthcare evaluation.

Main Methods:

• The study discusses the application of clinical performance information systems.
• It outlines how these systems facilitate "medical care value purchasing" by businesses.
• It describes how systems support "medical care value enhancement" by healthcare providers.

Main Results:

• Clinical performance information systems enable businesses to identify high-value healthcare providers.
• These systems empower healthcare providers to assess, improve, and market their quality and cost-effectiveness.
• The adoption of these systems is crucial for both purchasers and providers to succeed.

Conclusions:

• Healthcare purchasers must rapidly adopt medical care value purchasing strategies.
• Healthcare providers must quickly learn to leverage clinical performance data for value enhancement and marketing.
• The effective use of clinical performance information systems is essential for optimizing healthcare value in the corporate sector.