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- Joseph_Newhouse abstract "Joseph P. Newhouse (born February 24, 1942) is an American economist and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University, as well as the Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy. At Harvard, he is a member of the faculties at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.Prior to joining Harvard, he worked for twenty years as an economist at the RAND Corporation, serving as a faculty member of the RAND Graduate School from 1972 to 1988. At RAND, he played a leading role in RAND Health Insurance Experiment. In 2008, he started the Oregon Health Study.He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, which he founded in 1981. He has received the numerous awards such as the David Kershaw Prize from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research, the Kenneth J. Arrow award in Health Economics from the International Health Economics Association, the Zvi Griliches award for the best paper in Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Paul A. Samuelson Certificate of Excellence from TIAA-CREF.He is the author of books such as "Free for All: Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment", and "Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum".Section Heading: The Economics of Quality in Health Care Michael Kobernick Jillian Shank Jefferson Medical College As a result of years of research with the RAND Corporation and Harvard University, Joseph Newhouse has become extremely passionate about the instability of our nation's health care system. In his 2002 article, "Why is There a Quality Chasm?" he describes United States health care as “obtaining less value from the resources it uses than other industries”. Prior to proceeding with an explanation of Newhouse’s issues that lead to poor performance, it is important to understand the definitions of quality from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and in economic terms. The IOM defines quality as gap between the actual and potential performance of the US Healthcare system. In economic terms, Garber and Skinner have explored the principles of productive and allocative inefficiency. Productive efficiency refers to the impact of inputs like “physicians, nurses, hospital beds, and capital” on American health care and the authors ask if the impact is greater in other countries (more efficient). Allocative efficiency refers to the benefits from the “marginal dollar spent on health care” and asks the question do the benefits realized “exceed the opportunity cost of other goods” not purchased like raising salaries, a new car, or better education.3 The authors found that “nearly all countries fall short of ideal in productive efficiency” and the United States system lags behind (is less efficient) other countries most of the time.3 They found that the U.S. has a high degree of allocative inefficiency, when compared with other high-income countries. The causes are “high prices for inputs, poorly restrained incentives for overutilization, and a tendency to adopt expensive medical innovations rapidly, even when evidence of effectiveness is weak or absent”.3 Combining the quality definition by the IOM and economic terms, Newhouse suggests the reasons for poor this performance stem from the following: consumer ignorance, technological change, administered prices, the difficulty in assessing the performance of a given provider, and the role of the private sector. Consumer ignorance is associated with the inability to evaluate if the care provided is correct care and deferral of agency to the physician. The consumer is unable to assure high performance. In focusing on technology, Newhouse indicates that each health care system must keep up with new devices, medicine, and even abide by nationwide use of the EMR to make the most informed decisions for each individual. This rapid pace of change is often difficult to keep up with, resulting in poor quality. Administered prices are determined between the insurer and provider leading to the input cost adapting to the payment, not necessarily the needs of the patient or quality of care. Newhouse thinks a fixed price for goods and services might assure quality, as opposed to the DRG in which the hospital makes the most money by providing the minimum service. Measuring performance is difficult as many outcomes are subjective; without accurate measurement the ability to assess the provider is limited. Finally, Newhouse cites public sector policy, such as, creating barriers to entry into health care professions or using public funding for services result in politically based decisions often not in the best interest of overall quality. Newhouse’s endeavors successfully delineate the reasons for the quality chasm. He has a few suggestions: greater use of technology to provide better information to the physician during decision making, use of computer decision support systems, better health services research, and better financial incentive design and research.Other researchers and health care planners have attempted ways of crossing the quality chasm by improving the organization of health care for individuals. Organizational improvements include the primary care medical home, accountable care organizations, and allowing consumers to share in the savings of health payments after selecting coverage that leads to lower costs and higher quality . Some think increasing government regulation may result in improved access to care, reducing social disparities, training of more primary care providers, and enhancing the verification of provider competence in new technologies. As projected by Newhouse, programs to validate the provision of evidence-based care will enhance the safety of health care, as well as, medication reconciliation, check lists in the operating rooms, and care transition management.4Additional programs to address Newhouse’s problems include payment reform in Medicare to restructure programs, offering a wider range of services, and moving from fee for service to fee for value, which then may result in enhanced engagement of the consumer.5 Increasing the roles and responsibilities of the independent payment advisory board may assist in payment reform as well,5 in addition to utilizing an electronic medical record to develop reporting systems that may be used for physician and patient evaluation and care gap closure. Increased competition amongst health plans through an insurance exchange may lead to better quality and pricing. Newhouse does an excellent job of describing the problems surrounding the quality chasm and suggesting many interventions to try and cross it. ReferencesAntos, J., Bertko, J., Chernew, M., Cutler, D., deBrantes, F., Goldman, D., Kocher, B., McClellan, M., McGlynn, E., Pauly, M. &Shortell, S. (2010). Bending the curve through health reform implementation. American Journal of Managed Care, 16(11), pp. 804–12. Retrieved February 20, 2014 from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21348552Garber, A.; Skinner, J. Is American Healthcare Uniquely Inefficient. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22(4), pp. 27–50. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~jskinner/documents/garber_skinner_jep_2008.pdfInstitute of Medicine. (2001). Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the Twenty- first Century. Washington: National Academy Press. Retrieved February 13, 2014 from http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2001/Crossing-the-Quality-Chasm/Quality%20Chasm%202001%20%20report%20brief.pdfInstitute of Medicine. (2014). Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative. Washington: National Academy Press. Retrieved February 13, 2014 from http://www.iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/Crossing-the-Quality-Chasm-The-IOM-Health-Care-Quality-Initiative.aspxNewhouse, J. (2002). Why is there a Quality Chasm? Health Affairs, 21(4): 13–23.".
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