Quality Systems
Large employers and managed care providers
find it amusing that while each physician group claims to have
high quality, few actually collect data or develop "systems" that
reduce treatment variation and ensure that the correct thing
is done at the right time, every time. Prizm helps physicians
and hospitals walk the talk. Prizm accomplishes this through
implementing written clinical protocols that emphasize a conservative
approach toward the use of diagnostics and surgery, which often
are over-prescribed in certain specialties.
Prizm also helps the provider measure clinical outcome and collect
valuable case management data that aligns the organization to
the employer referral source.
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Defined
Many factors contribute to quality health care. Excellent health care
involves not only accurately diagnosing and treating a medical condition
but minimizing the amount of interruption it brings to one’s
regular lifestyle by helping patients cultivate habits aimed at prevention
and management. It is imperative that medical care providers take advantage
of the latest and most technologically developed treatment methods
in order to demonstrate their commitment to providing the best care
to patients.
Why it’s important
Detecting quality is important because with the tremendous advances
taking place within the medical field today, healthcare consumers must
know how to benefit from them. You must take an active role. The best
healthcare will not find you; you have to seek it out.
Not only is quality healthcare of obvious value to individual consumers,
its permeation into the market will continue to benefit society as
a whole. As more and more people begin integrating prevention methods
to avoid health problems, unnecessary medical costs will be saved.
While the United States offers the highest standard of healthcare
in the world, there is still huge treatment variation based on the
doctor you see. The truth is that your choice of physician will determine
the quality of care you will receive.
A center of excellence approach
Centers of excellence allow physicians who are super-specialists within
a given medical niche to come together and merge their abilities, automatically
resulting in a high quality provider.
Physicians and therapists work together with a team approach. Their
collaboration creates personalized treatment plans that reduce time
away from work. Our specialists glean information from the results
of diagnostic tests to learn key information specific to the patient,
eliminating unnecessary testing and incorrect diagnoses. This evaluation
allows us to modify treatment to cater to specific patients, thereby
removing unneeded fees and treatments.
When trying to maintain a high level of care, everyone
involved should be able to see the big picture of what they’re
trying to accomplish along with how they can best serve patients
and beat out the competition. In addition to direct marketing strategies
that target employers and managed care, a center of excellence must
position itself in its regional market as the single expert source
for information on back and neck pain. By offering a comprehensive
menu of specific information on their Web sites, health care practices
educate patients, ultimately helping reach the primary goal of providing
the best, most accurate care.
Reduce treatment variation with clinical protocols
Many specialties have
wide treatment variation and sub optimal care. The first step
to improving care through a center of excellence model is to
work with the physicians involved to develop uniform clinical
protocols that reduce treatment variation. Then by collecting
data and comparing clinical outcome and functional status, treatment
can be improved.
Prizm has developed proprietary binary path protocols that enable
physicians to unify their care and ensure that individuals are
getting the right thing at the right time every time, which is
the end goal of any quality improvement endeavor. Further, Prizm's
protocols enable a center to take a pre-set price for an episode
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