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One of the first presidents to attempt to orchestrate broad-sweeping healthcare reform, Bill Clinton, recently underlined the need to embark upon reform in a collective and unified effort. “The former president called on attendees to embrace evidence-based medicine as a means to bend healthcare\'s cost curves and lauded Medicaid expansion as a means to keep health plan rate increases low” (Eastwood, 2015, par.3). Clinton’s stress upon evidence-based medicine underlines the need to structure coverage and treatments based upon proven research of what is most effective; too often, critics have stated, care is dispensed based more along the lines of what… Continue Reading...
to improve safety, Gandalf and Merlino (n.d.) have discussed how transparency, healthcare reform, and critical issues such as market share play a role in the advancement of patient safety standardization in the industry. This paper will examine the points made by Gandalf and Merlino in their podcast “The State of Patient Experience” and show how standardization and priorities of healthcare organizations relate to one another.
Transparency
Transparency is an area where improvements can stand to be made in healthcare organizations to facilitate the enhancement of patient safety policies. How so? Transparency opens up the window on care practice and shines a… Continue Reading...
related to social justice in healthcare. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) dominated discourse in healthcare reform, creating a new set of values that have motivated members of my professional tribe to reach and strive towards the next level. In fact, research shows how the ACA has loosened barriers to change and promoted higher-level thinking in healthcare (Delmatoff & Lazarus, 2014). As a result of the ACA and the ensuing discourse on social justice and public policy reform, healthcare managers and leaders have started to envision themselves as part of Level Four tribes with shared values rather than emphasizing our competitive worth in a “I’m… Continue Reading...
Two
Diverse stakeholders in healthcare reform exhibit conflicting views and values on the role and importance of universal coverage. The American Medical Association (AMA, 2018) stands strongly in favor of universal health care and equitable access to healthcare. Likewise, the American Public Health Association (1995) advocates for universal health care. Both the AMA (2018)… Continue Reading...
Healthcare
Trends in regulation of Healthcare reform with the potential for the most positive effect on care quality, sustainability of organizations and why they are so important
Reforms in payments, anchored on recent patterns in the private and public sectors are needed to support high quality interventions that matter to patients. Medicare has moved towards payments that are aimed at person-level healthcare. Such measures include DRG payments and penalties that have been recently applied for readmissions, person-level payment remissions in the Accountable Care Organization, Person level payment remissions in the Medicare Advantage program, reforms such… Continue Reading...
According to the World Health Organization, countries that implement universal healthcare reforms have reduced their overall healthcare spending costs; if the United States adopted universal healthcare coverage the country would experience the same reductions in overall healthcare expenditures (World Health Organization, 2018). Thus, universal coverage could potentially reduce bloat and drive down costs, creating a more efficient, cost-effective, and ethical healthcare system in the process. Universal healthcare coverage would increase access to preventative care, thereby reducing the numbers and costs of emergency room visits, and promote a healthier society in general. A healthier society is a more economically productive society.… Continue Reading...
citizens of the nation (American Nurses Association, 2016)
The organization plays a central role in healthcare reform-related policy initiatives. Priority issues for the organization include: a streamlined health infrastructure and process capable of effectively delivering primary care within community settings; facilitating the transformation of and improvements to the overall healthcare atmosphere; a bigger RN and APRN (advanced practice RN) role in primary and basic healthcare delivery; and securing federal grants for nursing education/training (American Nurses Association, 2016).
AMA
Among the responsibilities of the AMA is: petitioning numerous governmental health-division organizations such as the National health IT Coordinator and the DHHS (Department of Health and Human… Continue Reading...
and important findings about this healthcare reform initiative in the conclusion.
Introduction
More than 7 years following its enactment, the track record of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” (hereinafter alternatively “the Act”) has been mixed but most Americans as well as policymakers agree that some changes are needed and proponents and critics alike would likely agree with the above epigraph. Many critics charge that healthcare costs have increased dramatically following the Act’s passage and have termed it the “Unaffordable Care Act” (Hoar, 2016) while others point to the increased rolls of… Continue Reading...
