There are possible blue oceans for financing care, delivering care, training providers, and empowering patients. Below I try to highlight several health care initiatives that reflect blue ocean strategy in our market.
Many organizations in our area are hiring more non-physician practitioners and emphasizing broader, team-based care models. Team-based care and the training of other clinicians and a move toward quality-driven compensation models are necessary to offset the burden for primary care physicians and contain the cost of salaries. In 2015 Providence Saint Joseph Health introduced a care team model comprised of two primary care physicians and a nurse practitioner who work together to manage a large primary care panel. This model seems to have improved patient access, decreased physicians’ burnout and increased satisfaction while maintaining or increasing quality scores.
Similarly, the University of Washington Medicine is addressing the nursing shortage by promoting a positive image of nursing, participating in mentoring programs, reaching out to youth and other community groups about health care issues and nursing careers and providing scholarships for nursing education, …show more content…
About one-third of the general population reports using complementary and alternative medicine either on their own or through a provider. The Polyclinic, the largest independent multispecialty providers group in the market, started several years ago integrating complementary and alternative medicine therapies with the practice of conventional medicine with the goal filling therapeutic gaps in existing health care practices; treating the whole person; and increasing health care choices. This strategy has been very successful for this group and has attracted a large number of new
Many organizations in our area are hiring more non-physician practitioners and emphasizing broader, team-based care models. Team-based care and the training of other clinicians and a move toward quality-driven compensation models are necessary to offset the burden for primary care physicians and contain the cost of salaries. In 2015 Providence Saint Joseph Health introduced a care team model comprised of two primary care physicians and a nurse practitioner who work together to manage a large primary care panel. This model seems to have improved patient access, decreased physicians’ burnout and increased satisfaction while maintaining or increasing quality scores.
Similarly, the University of Washington Medicine is addressing the nursing shortage by promoting a positive image of nursing, participating in mentoring programs, reaching out to youth and other community groups about health care issues and nursing careers and providing scholarships for nursing education, …show more content…
About one-third of the general population reports using complementary and alternative medicine either on their own or through a provider. The Polyclinic, the largest independent multispecialty providers group in the market, started several years ago integrating complementary and alternative medicine therapies with the practice of conventional medicine with the goal filling therapeutic gaps in existing health care practices; treating the whole person; and increasing health care choices. This strategy has been very successful for this group and has attracted a large number of new