The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (EHIF) took a big leap towards value-based healthcare as they started a national stroke patient pathway pilot involving 4 out of 6 hospitals in Estonia providing acute stroke care. A visual dashboard was built to display results and enable benchmarking between the hospitals. What information does the dashboard display? How…

Sustainability is a word that is increasing its visibility in the communication of organizations. Just as occupational safety became a critical theme in the 1970s, sustainability found its way into the corporate agenda in the 2010’s and is now an indistinguishable part of business. This is exemplified by the steady increase in cash flows to…

As feedback to our article on What is benchmarking and what are the benefits of benchmarking in healthcare?  we got some further questions which we’d like to share as a follow-up to our Q&A: Is benchmarking done only on an organizational level or at an individual level, as well? Are there positive examples how individual…