Reducing Costs Through the Appropriate Use of Specialty Services

This white paper describes efforts by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to find ways to reduce overuse, with a focus on specialty services, by identifying the most promising change ideas from case examples and the literature, and by incorporating improvement methodology to implement these changes. The resulting framework is a theory of the elements needed to reduce costs through the appropriate use of specialty services, focused primarily on changing professional practice culture by engaging physicians in developing and implementing practice standards that will work best in local circumstances. The report is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader.

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• Category: Operational/Financial Efficiency

• Source: Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

• Setting of Care: Ambulatory/Ancillary setting

• Stage of Care: Primary care

• IOM Domains of Quality: Efficiency

• Tags: Specialty Services, Practice Culture, Physician Engagement

	Reducing Costs Through the Appropriate Use of Specialty Services This white paper describes efforts by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to find ways to reduce overuse, with a focus on specialty services, by identifying the most promising change ideas from case examples and the literature, and by incorporating improvement methodology to implement these changes.