ABQAURP News October 2025
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Healthcare Leaders Are Overlooking the Key to Value-Based Care Success: Physician-Level Measurement
The reality is that while VBC has generated innovative care models and some limited success—particularly in primary care and especially within accountable care organizations—the progress has been uneven and insufficient.
The Exec: How to Succeed in Utilization Management
Utilization management includes determining whether services provided in the hospital setting should be provided in the outpatient setting instead, according to Jill O’Brien, CMO of Morton Hospital.
How to Build Comfort with New Technology to Improve Buy-In
To best implement new technologies as they arise, organizations need to consider buy-in from nurses and other healthcare professionals. The key to success includes asking for input and inviting those who will use the technology to the table for appropriate transparency and education.
Sentara Health, Cleveland Clinic Making Significant Strides in Sepsis Care
Sepsis is the body’s extreme reaction to an infection that can result in tissue damage and organ failure. Annually in the United States, there are at least 1.7 million adult hospitalizations for sepsis and at least 350,000 deaths from the condition, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Exec: 3 Ways to Innovate in Emergency Medicine
Innovation in emergency medicine includes creating new clinical care pathways, improving how a health system or hospital delivers emergency care, making care better and safer, and extending the reach of emergency care into rural areas.
What Healthcare Can Steal from Chick-fil-A’s Drive-Thru Playbook
Of course, the services we deliver as healthcare providers are a bit more nuanced and complicated than frying chicken. But still, are there lessons we can be learning from customer experience leaders in other sectors?
A CMO’s Guide to Offering Home Health Services
After hospitalizations, the benefits of offering home health services beyond reducing readmissions include increasing patient satisfaction and providing services at a lower cost than services at a skilled nursing facility.
Improving the Flow of Prior Authorization for Better Care
Prior authorization is a frequent pain point for both patients and providers. Frustration at delays of care grows as staff try to navigate complex processes and systems for prior authorization.
The Exec: How to Succeed in Integrating Clinical Care
A key to success in integrating clinical care is for leaders of the health system and clinical staff to view patients as if they were family members, according to Bevan Yueh, chief physician executive of University of Iowa Health Care.