...the development; and its importance in the development of risk management and quality improvement. Use this table as a graphic organizer to summarize the theoretical underpinnings and historical development of risk management and quality improvement. Historical Development (Name, Year) Founder of Event Nature of Development Importance to Development of Risk Management and Quality Improvement 1. The National Health care Quality Report, 2011 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The nature of the development is to monitor and control nationally the quality of care in the United States. These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. In the 20th century new chapters on care coordination, health system infrastructures are put into place. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care. According to Priority areas for national action: Transforming health care quality (2003), the committee decided a framework would be useful in helping to identify potential candidates for the priority areas.The framework encompasses four domains of care, they are the following; Staying healthy (preventive care). Getting better (acute care). Living with illness/disability (chronic care). Coping with end of life (palliative care) (Priority areas for national action: Transforming health care quality, 2003). 2. Health People 2010, 2010 Department...
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...affected the development of the health care system in the U.S. Three forces that have affected the development of the health care system in the United States is the government, insurance companies, and the American people. The first force that has affected the development of the health care system in the United States is the government. The government has affected the development of the health care system because they control practically everything that has to do with healthcare. They are the ones that create the policies which every health care organization has to abide by and the cost that follows these policies. The government knows that with each policy they pass, costs will be the number one topic because health care organizations has to buy medical supplies and equipment and everybody has to get paid. Very big decisions are made on a daily basis regarding the rise and fall of costs in the health care system by the government and the government has to make sure there is enough money to go around for everything, so health care facilities can buy these items and pay their employees. The policies they make has a big part in the development of the health care system and one of the main entities that are affected is the insurance companies because of the insurance they provide to the United States citizens that require care. Insurance companies are the second force that has affected the development of the health care system in the United States. Insurance companies are...
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...forces, which have affected the development of the health care system in the United States, are economics, technology and legal. The functioning of the health care system in economic development has become an influential issue. Health care is a predominant industry in the United States and is expected to develop further. Health care performance influences the economic growth in several rural communities. The health care system could be an influential organization and supplier of economic development or unimportant segment of the local economic model (Shinberger, 2005). As medical technology evolves, understanding how and when to adopt or invest in it is critically important. Move too early, and the infrastructure needed to support the innovation may not yet be in place; wait too long, and the time to gain competitive advantage may have passed. The economics affects the competition, which exists with the development of technology. The improvement in health care reports economic tasks: capital for the advance change and considering the parties responsible for the cost, and expenses for the product or service it yields. One difficulty is the time-consuming speculation period necessary for different medications or therapies, which needs the food and drug administration approval. Economics, Technology and Legal The health care segment is an essential factor of the United States economy. The United States doesn’t supply health care for the nation using methods supporting the technologically...
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...Introduction Purpose of the Paper Communication of health data between organizations is critical to safe, efficient continuity of care. With the monumental growth in the use of Electronic Medical Records, it is important that we move toward an increasingly integrated system to prevent fragmented care, costly medical errors and frustration by the consumer receiving the care. Definition of Interoperability In the healthcare setting, interoperability is the ability of organizational electronic health records, applications and software systems, to communicate and exchange data to health care providers and authorized parties and utilize this information to support the continuation of patient care, across organizational boundaries (HIMSS, 2013). Data can be integrated into one unified medical record and shared across various clinicians, hospitals, labs, pharmacy, radiology providers and the patient. The goal is facilitating the delivery of efficient, quality health care to the individual and the community (HIMSS, 2013). Interoperability Importance of interoperability in patient care As the number of health care settings, specialties and medical services that the consumer can utilize increases, so does the importance of...
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...Assessment With the increase in diverse population in the United States, the nurses in America need to Know the importance of culture and heritage importance in health care. .People from different parts of world carry different cultures . Each culture overview health in different ways. Understanding the culture make it easy to provide quality health care to individuals and families. Every culture have their own health belief to that what causes sickness and who should be involved in curing and what sort of remedy to be taken to cure the disease . The more the understanding of the culture of a patient the better the care the patient receives.”The Heritage Assessment Tool” is designed to find a patients cultural, religious, family and ethnic back ground. The norms and practices in each culture is varied. The “Heritage Assessment Tool” gives nurse a picture of the patients understanding regarding the health beliefs ,illness ,health and health promotion. This helps for the plan of developing a culturally appropriate health care. In this paper the goal of the author is to summarize the results of the assessments done on three different families of different cultures and utilize the results to plan the health promotion based on different cultures. The family support...
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...economics, and health care funding. The significance and how it affects the world today. I will address how the history and development of health care economics and the timeline of health care funding has changed over the past years in the United States. What is the Meaning of Evolution of Health Care Economics? Development of health care economics, it is a changing system within the United States. It has become multifaceted and in the past two decades, the upheaval in health care in is largely in lieu of rising health care cost. It is a discipline that deals with the conception, distribution, and all intakes of goods and services. Over the past years, it has dealt with pricing of products and the structure of the economy, as the price-cost relationship of a whole medical firm. It relates to an uncaring conversion, when a demand fails to increase or decrease in percentage to a decrease or increase in price. The adjustment involves the total health care market price of all the goods and services created within the form of a country during an identified time ("Gross domestic Product, " 2014). However, the evolution of health care economics deals with a broad and general aspect of an economy income and investments of the United States as a whole. The history and development of health care economics have been responsive to changing in many ways. It also plays an important role and impedes with the United States through the management care system. The Importance and How It...
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...origins of mental health, fundamentals of mental health, types of mental illness, and epidemiology of mental illness. • Class discussion: Discuss the historical origins of mental health services in the United States. Have students discuss how mental health services have changed in recent years. Ask students to discuss some of the public perception challenges there are surrounding mental illness and access to care in the United States. • Lecture on organization and financing of mental health services, mental health financing, and the future of mental health services. • Class Discussion: Students are to describe what they believe will be the future of mental health services. Discuss the importance of health service administrators in the management of mental health services. WEEK 8: May 24th Note: Campus is closed May 28th thru May 30 in remembrance of Memorial Day Course outcome in focus: • Explain the impact that policy, social and financial forces have on health care access and quality of care in the United States. • Explain the major components of the U.S. health care system, their functions, and the relationships among these components. • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health services organization and management. Supporting topics: • Research and development process • Access, pricing, and patent issues • Value of medicines • Employment trends in the health care sector • Changing nature of health professionals ...
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...United States is the only industrially advanced nation with over 15 percent of its population uninsured for health care services.(1) This aspect of American health policy has earned us a reputation of "backwardness"; for both Western Europe and Canada have systems of universal entitlement to health care. Should we adopt the Western European or Canadian models of health care financing and organization? Or should we maintain our present system and recognize that it is a manifestation of American exceptionalism, i.e., of the ways in which the United States is fundamentally different from Western Europe and Canada? Comparative analysts often emphasize the possibilities of adopting elements of health care systems from abroad. But there is also a deeply rooted skeptical variant to this school of thought: those who emphasize the importance of American exceptionalism and who presume that comparative studies of health systems are not useful for policy learning.(2) Both of these responses are probably inappropriate. The second response - that comparative analysis is not useful - insulates us from the experience of other nations. It is ethnocentric; it tends to make us conservative; and, therefore, it supports the status quo in the United States. The first response - that we should adopt the Western European or Canadian models - relies too heavily on the experience of these nations. It is misleading because there are serious limitations in the Western European and Canadian...
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...Running Head: CUTURALLY COMPETENT CARE Introduction Globalization has changed the way we live. The population demographic of United States is changing at a fast pace as every year people from different cultural and ethnic background are immigrating to the United States. By 2020, the number of ethnic minority in the United States will grow up to 35%. Immigration is an ongoing process and has brought a variety of culture and knowledge to the United States. The diversity of population is affecting the healthcare delivery system in the country. Nurses play a major role in the delivery of healthcare. Nurses are the direct caregivers to patients and spend maximum time with the patients and their family. “As the demographic composition of Western industrialized countries continues to diversify, the need for nurses to practice with cultural competence becomes essential” (Canales & Barbara, 2001, p. 103). Culturally Competent care Culturally competent care values diversity and respect individual differences regardless of one’s own race, beliefs, and cultural background. Culture can be defined as beliefs, values, customs and lifeway of a group of people that influence their choices in choosing health care practices. These behaviors are primarily learned in the family and are transmitted in the family. Culture is mostly unconscious and has strong influence on health practices. Subcultures, ethnic groups differ from the dominant culture and may have...
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...Health Care Necessity for a Universal Health Care System in America Health care reform has recently become top priority for policy makers, and health administrators. The current health care system faces many costly problems for the uninsured/underinsured, employment-based insurance coverage, and financially burdened health service providers. Although policy makers have made many attempts to raise the number of insured, through programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, the number of uninsured Americans continues to rise. Currently 45 million American have no health insurance and children make up approximately 10 million of that number reported by the U.S. Census Bureau (8-10). The politicians and largely the medical societies, appear to be unable to decide what society’s responsibility in health care should be to those who are unable to purchase basic coverage. Surveys conducted by institutions like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation have noted that the proportion of people named the uninsured as the single most important domestic issue. Additionally, the Woods and Kaiser Foundation study concludes 55% of the participants expressed willingness to pay some level of taxes to cover the uninsured (1-4). The majority thought that the uninsured should be offered a federal funded health care package. Universal health can enhance health and well-being by promoting access to high-quality care that is cost effective, efficient, safe,...
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...Analysis of the Health Care Systems Offered in the United States and Mexico Comparative Analysis of the Health Care Systems Offered in the United States and Mexico Healthcare Comparison of United States and Mexico The objective of this report is to give a comparative analysis between the United States healthcare system and Mexico's. Its key focal point will be centered on the countries policies, how their various systems are financed, who provides healthcare, the costs of the programs and availability of access. While some factors of these two countries are similar there are varying differences among them, especially cost and access. All of the components of the two countries healthcare systems will be discussed in depth in a non-biased manner, it is our goal to simply establish how they are similar and what differences there are among them. For starters a comparison of the overall health of the people of the two countries will form a baseline as to the quality of care being provided in each of the countries and give us an insight into the effectiveness of its preventative services. The mortality rate of citizens of Mexico is 4.86 per 1,000, whereas the U.S. has 8.38 per 1,000(CIA, 2001) This is due in large part to the number of citizens the U.S. has over 65 years of age, 13.1% of the U.S. population is over 65, Mexico's is half that with 6.6%. While the baby boomer generation is a large reason why this number is high, a correlation between the quality of care given to...
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...Health Care Organization and Delivery System Health Care Organization and Delivery System HCS/531 November 09, 2011 In the current era of technology, health care system continues to research on improvising the various ways on delivering outstanding health services to its people. In health care industry, majority of the developed countries are run by national insurance generated by enforced general taxes. Unlike in United States healthcare insurances are run by partly private and government institution ensuring individuals based on certain eligibility. Although the distinct system in the United States protrudes as one of the best health care providers around the globe, some individuals considered it as unmanageable catastrophic scheme. Additional information regarding United States health care system, the implications of its belief and values, and some models of health care delivery used in America are presented below. The health care delivery system of United States is a complicated organization involving education and research, medical suppliers, private, and government insurers, health care providers, payers, and the government. It composed an approximate number of 10 million in employment from doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, administrators, caregivers, and more. The system also involves several institutions such as hospitals, nursing homes, mental health facilities, and clinical sites serving millions of people yearly...
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...drinking water, nurses have a unique opportunity fulfill their social responsibility as health promoters by collaborating with political and healthcare leaders to created sustainable solutions to identified needs. In addition to working as health promoters, nurses need competencies that are necessary to provide holistic nursing care and development of global attitude in providing health care to at risk population. Also they should be able to advocate for those in need of a voice. This paper is an annotated bibliography regarding international health in nursing. The reference cited address various information about the role of a nurse and what is global health in nursing. The references cited were obtained from numerous and widely scattered sources such as textbooks, electronic journals, magazines, and peer-reviewed journals. Chatwood, S., Bierregaard, P., & T. Kue, Y. (2012). Global Health-A Circumpolar Perspective. American Journal Of Public Health, 102(7):1246-1249. doi: 10.21.05/AJPH.2011.30058. The authors of this article discussed the fact that global health has largely replaced international health. In fact despite the mindset of international health development assistance implicit in international health, global health is still very much preoccupied with how the rich north can contribute to improving the health of low and middle income counties. Thus, most grants on global health offered by governmental and nongovernmental agencies are usually restricted to interventions...
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...Health Care System Health Services Organization Health Care System In this paper there will be a brief discussion of three forces that have affected the development of the U.S healthcare system. It will observe whether or not these forces will continue to have an effect on the U.S healthcare system over the next decade. This paper will also include an additional force, which may be lead to believe to have an impact on the health care system of the nation. And lastly this paper will evaluate the importance of technology in healthcare. There are three major forces that have affected the development of the health care system within the U.S. and these forces include social, political and economic. The first force is defined as a social force, and during this time in the year of “1850 was the development of the first hos-pitals within the United States, which marked the beginning of formal organization in the U.S” (Williams & Torrens, 2010, p.3). “This particular force concentrated its efforts on public health problems, such as epidemics and various acute infections that affected large amounts of those individuals as a result of poor living conditions, such as unclean foods, contaminated water and housing. After most of the epidemic problems started getting under control, hospitals had to now solve other major problems such as trauma and diseases which were in critical need of surgical intervention” (Williams & Torrens, 2010, p. 3). The second force that affected the...
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...Nina Talukdar IMPH 8000 Professor Seol September 20th, 2009 IMPH 8000: Review Assignment on Health Care System & Information Technology The role of IT in the health care system is a widely discussed topic of the 21st century. Various individuals ranging from researchers, physicians, health insurers, and economists have been looking for the perfect solution to the health care system of the 21st century. In the articles “The Bela Schick lecture: the US health care system: diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis” by Ein D and “Shattuck Lecture: health care in the 21st century” by Frist WH; one would be able to witness two opinions regarding the policy of IT in the health care system of The United States. The article written by Ein D states the opinion of a physician, in a private practice, who believes in the market system and is not sure of how the government should intervene in the marketplace. Ein D believes that The United States should invest in forming electronic medical records (EMRs) to help the situation of the health care system. Ein D states that less than 5% of physicians use electronic records as part of patient care due to the high costs of transitioning to electronic records and then maintaining them. Ein D feels that physicians must realize that the electronic medical record system is affordable and can increase their productivity. Electronic records can help connect the many hospitals, private practices, and clinics around the nation into one system...
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