BIMS help governments, private and public healthcare leaders create Change that Matters by making healthcare better, more affordable, and more accessible for millions of people around the world.
Our new objectives for the improvement of health and healthcare
1. set care objectives that really matter to people.
2. ensure that patients continue to receive high-quality care every time – care that is effective, safe, and results in patients having as positive an experience as possible.
3. make sure that there are clear accountability and a transparent way to tell whether the Board is getting results
4. Set out a clear expectation for continual improvement across the health service.
5. preventing premature deaths – helping people live longer
6. supporting people with a long term condition to look after themselves
7. supporting people through their recovery from episodes of ill health or injury
8. Making sure that people have a positive experience of care throughout their medical treatment.
9. Treating people in a clean, safe, environment, and protecting them from unnecessary harm.
Improving healthcare has long been a central part of the mission of BIMS’s Healthcare Systems & Services Practice. We have honored that mission by serving our clients effectively and investing in issues deeply relevant to society, such as social determinants of health, rural health, maternal health, and behavioral health—including mental health, substance use, and the opioid crisis.
With the increasing growth in healthcare spending and continued healthcare regulatory changes, federal and state government agencies remain focused on both the quality and value of care. BIMS’s practice works alongside decision-makers in key state and federal agencies to help them transform the delivery and financing of healthcare and other social services, with particular strength in value-based purchasing.
BIMS’s team brings expert perspectives from the broader, with extensive experience, providers, and commercial health plans.
Main Challenges Confronting Public Hospitals/Government hospitals
In our opinion, the main challenges confronting the public hospitals/government hospital today are as follows:
1. Deficient infrastructure,
2. Deficient manpower,
3. Unmanageable patient load,
4. Equivocal quality of services,
5. High out of the pocket expenditure.
Our solutions include:
State Government Practice
We work with state Medicaid, mental health, developmental disabilities, public health, and social services agencies, as well as worker’s compensation and state employee groups on issues such as service delivery, financing, and operations. We bring useful perspectives on innovation and transformation in healthcare, as well as knowledge about what has, or has not, worked in varying circumstances. We also support Medicaid health plans and provider organizations that deal with state government healthcare and social services agencies.
Federal Government Practice
We work with federal agencies at the forefront of national healthcare issues to help them improve both the quality and value of the healthcare purchased for and provided by, the federal government. We bridge the gap between the commercial and government healthcare sectors, by bringing cross-sector insight and expertise to federal government program design and operations.
Public Sector Health
We help organizations navigate through a changing, complex, and often uncertain healthcare marketplace. We offer insight, intelligence, and actionable solutions that help organizations harness the momentum of the market, innovate new solutions and prepare the workforce for what lies ahead – all with a clear focus of adding value, improving quality, and reducing cost.
Managed Care Organizations
Our experience with state and federal agencies puts us in a unique position to partner with managed care organizations and help develop strategies to meet contractual requirements for managed government healthcare programs. We address issues including network adequacy, compliance, and care/case management requirements for information security events.
We have established the Center for Societal Benefit through Healthcare to integrate, amplify, and extend these previous efforts. We aspire to collaborate with other organizations to drive positive innovation in areas that have been historically underinvested in but are critical for the benefit of society. We hope to accomplish our objective through four strategies.
1. By conducting and sharing research.
2. By co-investing with other organizations to define and launch new innovations with the explicit
purpose of sharing results so others can replicate what proves effective. We hope to include “open source” sharing of select analytic models, data sets, and software tools.
3. Our third strategy entails partnering with other organizations to convene and support multi-stakeholder collaborations.
4. Finally, we will continue to focus on achieving a tangible impact as we serve clients in these areas.