The Outcome Improvement Way to Greater Productivity and Simpler, More Satisfying Lives

Today’s Universal Challenge results from an increasingly complex world.  The Challenge is to avoid letting complex matters detract from the things that are more important to each one of us.  Symptoms of constant interruptions, distractions, delays, missed opportunities, costly mistakes and even fatal accidents are becoming more and more prevalent and acute.  It is time to take action to get value back into our lives..  Outcome Improvement seeks to replace the obsolete and limiting thereby jumpstarting future happiness and success.

Our Multi-Faceted Approach

• Strengthen management skills and improve processes and procedures to better utilize resources, address deficiencies and track results against goals and objectives

• Offload tasks that can be done directly with self-service systems or with limited involvement of less costly resources

• Provide proactive measures that simply avoid problems

• Simplify and look for opportunities that others miss

• Start with the "low hanging fruit" and branch out to greater challenges as time and experience allow

• Develop and implement roadmaps to continuing improvements

• Utilize automated personal assistants as they become available

Healthcare - One of our focus areas

Medicine has changed dramatically over the past century.  Master physicians exercising craft and judgment have been gradually replaced by an increasingly complex system of specialized service providers who administer a growing number of protocols, tests, procedures and medicines. 

Despite increasing demands for greater efficiency, quality control and productivity, medicine has not applied comparable management processes and procedures to those found in many industries.   Providers concentrate on what they do best. Consequently, patients have been caught in a distributed system employing skilled, dedicated, professionals, that lacks experienced management with accountability and control over every detail and interaction.

Patients are now being told to take responsibility for their own health and to assume management roles.  Although the healthcare community is short-staffed and unable to manage the intricacies of personal care for them, it is equally difficult to expect those with little or no medical experience and aptitude to do  this for themselves.

Perhaps someday there will be a layer of automated project managers between patients and their healthcare providers.  In the interim, it is unlikely that very many patients will satisfy every need without help.  We believe that the best alternative right now is to use Personal Health Records (PHRs), ones created and administered by patients, to aid in filling information gaps, promote better communications, reduce errors and omissions and thereby provide better overall results.  Value propositions reflect typical project management and Outcome Improvement objectives.

In general, PHRs can be used to record health data including issues from the patient's perspective and to track resolutions.

PHR Value Proposition

• Improves patient-provider and provider-provider communications
• Makes patients more personally responsible for their health
• Facilitates healthcare initiatives – cost control; service improvement (responsiveness, quality of care and value)
• Logs and tracks problems and solutions
• Reconciles billing
• Sets personal objectives
• Monitors progress
• Employs disadvantaged and displaced workers
• Warns of out-of-tolerance results

Outcome Improvement helps patients and providers to work together and use a Lifelong Personal Health Record™ to improve communications and personal health management..

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