Important Attributes Of Quality Health Care: Consumer Perspectives - Brief Article IMPORTANT ATTRIBUTES OF QUALITY HEALTH CARE: CONSUMER PERSPECTIVES M H Oermann, T Templine Journal of Nursing Scholarship Vol 32 no 2 (1998) 167-172 Personnel at contemporary health care agencies are identifying patient outcomes to evaluate services and patient care. This research focuses on consumer perspectives of high quality health care. Consumer perspectives or expectations have been found to be based on demographic
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Shih, K. Davis, S. Schoenbaum, A. Gauthier, R. Nuzum, and D. McCarthy, Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance (New York: The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, Aug. 2008). 2 Information about Kaiser Permanente was synthesized in part from a presentation by CEO George Halvorson to a Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health Care System meeting in San Francisco, and from the Commission’s site visit to the Kaiser Permanente
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Health Literacy "It has long been recognised that people with less well developed literacy, language and numeracy skills (LLN) also have poor health outcomes." (DfES 2006). Poor basic skills impacts on the ability to navigate the healthcare system. It makes it harder, if not impossible, for individuals to make choices about their treatment and their ability to make healthy lifestyle choices. Health Literacy is the ability of individuals to make informed decisions about their health
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Social media is a rapidly growing and evolving driver of patient engagement and social change on a local, national and global scale. The impact of patient education and engagement through social media interaction is felt throughout the health care system and health care institutions and providers are adapting rapidly to accommodate the needs of an informed, involved patient population. The shifting patient-physician dynamic involved in electronic communications poses ethical and moral questions about
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2014 Maria Mendez Vulnerable Population and Self-Awareness Vulnerable populations are groups that are not well integrated into the health care system because of ethnic, cultural, economic, geographic, or health characteristics (Urban Institute, 2014). The elderly can become more vulnerable for a variety of reasons. Limited options for health care, physical or mental impairments and lack of transportation all contribute to the elderly being classified as a vulnerable population. Demographics
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medical care to the Puget Sound’s Eastside residents. They opened their doors to the community on October 16th, 1960 and after multiple expansions, Overlake is now a 337 bed, level III trauma center. Overlake “offers a comprehensive range of services including cardiac care, cancer care, general and specialty surgery, women’s programs, senior care and psychiatric services” ("Overlake Hospital services," n.d.). The Affordable Care Act is a recent legislation that is changing our current health care system
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American Well: The Doctor Will E-See You Now Background American Well is the brain child of Ido and Roy Schoenberg. Brothers, cofounders, and physicians they founded this online company in an attempt to improve access and change the delivery of healthcare. By having physicians available online, it changes the interaction between patient and provider. In today’s healthcare model, the patient is subject to the provider’s schedule and may have to wait days, weeks, or even months to obtain an
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With the inception of the Affordable Health Care Act, an estimated 32 million Americans are expected to join the ranks of those already insured, and the existing shortage of primary care physicians available to provide care will continue to increase (Fairman, Rowe, Hassmiller, & Shalala, 2011). Nurse practitioners are currently helping fill this gap by providing care to a large portion of this population. However, many nurse practitioners providing care are now limited in their practice due
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Title: Why the Current Health Care System Is In Turmoil Name: Course: Institution: Date: The US health system is in turmoil mostly because of two major issues first being that the cost of treatment is very high and the second factor that is affecting the health system being that most US citizens lack medical coverage and thus are unable to get access to good health care services. These two factors have put the current health care system in a crisis because it has made health services expensive and
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Title: Why the Current Health Care System Is In Turmoil Name: Course: Institution: Date: The US health system is in turmoil mostly because of two major issues first being that the cost of treatment is very high and the second factor that is affecting the health system being that most US citizens lack medical coverage and thus are unable to get access to good health care services. These two factors have put the current health care system in a crisis because it has made health services expensive and
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