HealthLeaders Media June 22, 2015
Fueled by the financial incentives built into the healthcare reform law, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s concept is generating meaningful changes in the way healthcare is delivered, research finds.
The Triple Aim, an approach to health delivery that targets quality, cost and population health, could have been just another piece of healthcare jargon. Instead, hospitals and health systems large and small have adopted it as framework for major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In a recent assessment of the approach, the architects of the idea looked back over the past seven years and concluded that, “the Triple Aim became part of the US national strategy for tackling health care issues,” especially in the implementation of the...