Healthcare system performance: Mississippi indicators & healthcare infrastructure : opportunities for improvement
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Harris, John Dillon, author
- Contributor(s):
- Center for Mississippi Health Policy, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Ridgeland, MS. : Center for Mississippi Health Policy, May 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Assurance, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Quality Indicators, Health Care Mississippi United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The performance of Mississippi’s healthcare system is consistently ranked as one of the lowest in the nation. In 2013, the Center for Mississippi Health Policy (Center) published the report, “Healthcare System Performance: What Mississippi Indicators Reveal,” which included an analysis of national health system performance indicators and discussed the weaknesses of the state’s healthcare system. At the time, the state’s use of hospital care for chronic and preventable conditions was one of the highest in the nation, while the utilization of primary and preventive care was one of the lowest. Low rates of utilization such as this result in very poor health outcomes and financial burdens on the state’s healthcare resources. The report also discussed strategic actions and opportunities for addressing these weaknesses, and categorized those strategies into four dimensions of healthcare performance: (1) Workforce; (2) Payment Systems; (3) Service Delivery Models; (4) Performance Measurement. The report discussed initiatives from each of the four performance dimensions Mississippi and private organizations had taken to address the state’s poorly performing healthcare system. For example, the Mississippi Office of Physician Workforce was developed in 2012 to address the state’s healthcare workforce by creating enhanced family medicine residency programs. In the same year, the Mississippi Division of Medicaid reformed their payment systems by implementing the Mississippi Coordinated Access Network (MSCAN) program to address quality of care and rising costs through the coordination of care for Mississippi Medicaid beneficiaries. Mississippi was making significant efforts to address healthcare performance issues but, at the time of our 2013 report, was severely lacking in their coordination of strategies and efforts. The report explained several action points related to four dimensions of healthcare system performance that the National Academy for State Health Policy recommended states collaborate and coordinate their efforts to improve health outcomes and healthcare system performance. Some of the action points that were most relevant to the improvement of Mississippi’s healthcare system included: (1) Increase providers trained in primary and preventive care; (2) Revise payment models to incentivize improvements in health outcomes and the expansion of patient care coordination; (3) Adopt use of electronic health records and enhancement of data systems; (4) Report health quality measures to Medicare to improve the development of current performance measurements. Over the past decade, Mississippi policies and initiatives have addressed many of those points and have made improvements across several indicators in each dimension of national health system performance. Throughout the same period, Mississippi’s healthcare system has continued to rank as the poorest performing state healthcare system of the United States and the District of Columbia. This report will review current data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Commonwealth Fund to analyze trends in Mississippi’s most improved indicators by using the same data referenced in the 2013 report. This analysis will also identify dimensions in which the least amount of change has occurred or have worsened and will explore policy action and implications impacting these indicators. The report will address ways to better coordinate the efforts of the state and improve its overall health system performance. To expound upon the state’s opportunities for improvement, this report will also take into consideration several internal and external factors that have taken place since the publication of our 2013 performance report. This report will examine the impact of these factors on key determinants of health for many Mississippians.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (55 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918487353506676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918487353506676