Clinical safety: "The Leapfrog Group" and other benchmarkings

The Hospital Safety Score is a scaled assessment (A / B / C / D / E / F) of American hospitals that aims to provide that insurers and citizens have access to proven clinical safety information offered by each hospital in the system. The Hospital Safety Score is a summary of 26 parameters that feed on both a voluntary survey and official sources: AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality), CDC (Centre for Disease Control and Prevention), CMS (Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and "American Hospital Association Annual Survey."

Kaiser Permanente: the keys to success

Kaiser Permanente (KP) is an integrated managed care consortium, acting in California, and to a lesser extent on 8 other U.S. states. In the series of "Virtual Clinical Practice" I have already made ​​a brief presentation of the most relevant features of Kaiser Permanente to better understand the development of Health Connect, the electronic medical record of this insurer.

KP Results

What attracts us, European health managers, to KP are their excellent results, both in adjusted resource utilisation as well as in the quality of care which contrasts to the American environment where inequities in access, organisational and medical performance disorder prevails. To illustrate what I mean I have chosen this article: