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  Standardizing outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation practices in a large multistate Medical system: A practice Convergence Project
  Author(s): Ray W Squires
  
  The United States healthcare system is evolving from fee-for-service reimbursement to paying for high-value care. This paper describes work to standardize 20 separate outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programs (CR) in a multistate medical system with the goal of providing consistent high-value CR services. The project is part of a medical system-wide practice convergence initiative to provide services common to more than one location at the same level of high quality and with the same level of individualized, yet standardized patient experience. The CR project began in August 2014 and the initial phase was completed in October 2018. Fifty-two staff members participated. Six areas of practice were selected: patient exercise session data management system (.. View More»
  

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