The Dutch Government Adopts MedRisk's Instrument for Measuring Patient Satisfaction.KING OF PRUSSIA King of Prussia, industrialized suburban area (1990 pop. 18,406), Montgomery co., SE Pa. It has glass and steel fabricating, food processing, printing and publishing, and varied manufacturing (textiles, liquified petroleum gas, water-treatment and electrical , Pa. -- The Centre for Evidence Based Physiotherapy located at Maastricht University in the Netherlands has partnered with MedRisk, Inc. to incorporate the MedRisk Instrument for Measuring Patient Satisfaction and ECB See electronic code book. Benchmarking services into their national quality assurance program for measuring the quality of care delivered by physical therapists. MedRisk is a US-based specialty managed care firm focused on physical medicine and claims workflow technology Workflow technology is a new field of software products designed to improve the design of information systems. It involves use of workflow engine to execute models of processes. The models can be edited by persons not experienced in programming (e.g. solutions. Its research and academic subsidiary Expert Clinical Benchmarks, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , (ECB) monitors treatment outcomes, measures patient satisfaction and develops best-practice evidence-based treatment guidelines. For several years, the Netherlands government has operated their healthcare system on a "pay for performance" basis, similar to the system that Medicare and Medicaid Medicare and Medicaid U.S. government programs in effect since 1966. Medicare covers most people 65 or older and those with long-term disabilities. Part A, a hospital insurance plan, also pays for home health visits and hospice care. are initiating in the US. As part of their program requirements, physical therapists are obligated ob·li·gate tr.v. ob·li·gat·ed, ob·li·gat·ing, ob·li·gates 1. To bind, compel, or constrain by a social, legal, or moral tie. See Synonyms at force. 2. To cause to be grateful or indebted; oblige. to demonstrate the quality of care delivered by submitting a cumulative annual report on clinical elements that define quality care. Patient satisfaction is one of those elements. The MedRisk Instrument for Measuring Patient Satisfaction provides an objective, standardized tool for measuring patient satisfaction. The MedRisk Instrument for Measuring Patient Satisfaction will be available via the Internet in Dutch, for all physical therapy clinics in the Netherlands by the end of the first quarter of 2007. ECB will provide benchmarking services so that both the clinics and the government can review reports and evaluate clinic performance as it relates to patient satisfaction by comparing the performance of clinics against each other as well as against national standards. The MedRisk Instrument for Measuring Patient Satisfaction was validated in the US in 2001 and in the Netherlands in 2003. Roger Nelson, PT, PhD, FAPTA FAPTA Fellows of the American Physical Therapy Association , Vice President of ECB, Rob De Bie, PhD, PT, Professor, University of Maastricht, Department of Epidemiology and Director of the Rehabilitation and Related Therapies Field at The Cochrane Collaboration, and Erik Hendriks, PhD, PT, Associate Professor at the University of Maastricht, the Director of Quality Studies at the Royal Dutch Society of Physiotherapy, and Senior Researcher and Manager of the Program for the Development and Implementation of National Clinical Practice Guidelines clinical practice guidelines Clinical policies, practice guidelines, practice parameters, practice policies Medtalk Systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and Pt decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. See Psychology. for the Allied Health Professions collaborated on the project. About MedRisk: Founded in 1994 and based in King of Prussia, Pa., MedRisk, Inc. provides specialty managed care services along with claims workflow management tools to the workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. industry. With a demonstrated core competency in physical medicine management, MedRisk has leveraged its technological expertise and evidence-based research to provide a growing list of products and services to its client community including document management, best-practice claim-workflow automation, specialty network specialty network Single specialty network Managed care A loosely cohesive group of physicians specialized in one area of medicine–eg, cardiology, oncology, Ob/Gyn, ophthalmology, radiology, etc, who form a network to attempt to capture a segment of a Pt services, network integration and data analytics. MedRisk's programs deliver savings and operational efficiencies that are significantly greater than traditional programs. Customers include insurance carriers, self-insured employers, third-party administrators and general managed care workers' compensation companies. More information is available at www.medrisknet.com or by calling 1-800-225-9675. About ECB: Expert Clinical Benchmarks, LLC, (ECB) is the clinical research and academic subsidiary of MedRisk, Inc. ECB monitors treatment outcomes, measures patient satisfaction, conducts academic offerings for clinicians, performs peer reviews, and is the industry leader in the development and maintenance of physical medicine treatment guidelines and utilization management protocols based on integrated outcome models and evidence-based practices. More information is available at www.expertclinicalbenchmarks.com or by calling 1-800-814-8712. |
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