GI Unit Leadership: Optimizing Endoscopy Operations through Leadership (On-demand) | February 2025-Using Quality Metrics to Drive Improvement

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In this talk, the speaker addresses the importance of benchmarking in establishing quality metrics within endoscopy units, especially as healthcare moves toward value-based payment systems. Benchmarking aims to improve performance and, though some units may not explicitly recognize their involvement, nearly all partake in such activities. Challenges like staffing shortages, technological costs, and value perception are highlighted. The definition of value varies among healthcare teams, employers, and patients, making unified quality metrics complex. The transition from merit-based to value-based incentive payment pathways by CMS emphasizes the importance of benchmarking. Multiple quality dimensions are examined, including adenoma detection rate (ADR) and efficiency factors. Each role, from scheduling to procedure, contributes to meeting benchmarks. Improving teamwork and strategic planning are crucial, with examples showing how varied metrics can enhance operations. This emphasizes adopting strategic methods aligned with financial, operational, and satisfaction benchmarks for optimal endoscopy unit performance.

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Gerard Isenberg, MD MBA FASGE

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benchmarking

value-based healthcare

quality metrics

endoscopy units

adenoma detection rate