Healthcare delivery is complex, dynamic is rarely without barriers. To encapsulate the crisis facing America’s fractured medical system, Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare is a documentary that showcases several facets needing attention (Heineman & Froemke, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the modalities outlined in the film and extrapolate on the presented concepts.
Overview
Escape Fire summarizes American healthcare delivery challenges from different perspectives including clinicians, service providers, patients, cultural context, fiscal hardship and alternate collaborators (military). Concurrent paradigms of psychological, political, and socioeconomic factors further compound effective healthcare delivery. The overtones of the film’s narrative reflect similar barriers to effective healthcare impartment in Canada. There are common issues such as fee-for-service (FFS) billing models, disjointed services, soaring drug costs, and limited insured services. Not all medical care is actually free in Canada, but most major health services are covered. Even though there is federal funding for certain …show more content…
AHS has created Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs) to help streamline treatments, protocols, and collaborators across the province. SCNs involve networks of people who are passionate and knowledgeable about specific areas of health, challenging them to find new and innovative ways of delivering care that will provide better quality, better outcomes and better value for every Albertan (AHS, 2018). AHS and the Critical Care SCN developed a Provincial Intensive Care Unit Delirium Initiative. Through innovation and collaboration, the SCN helped establish provincial standards and guidelines for the management and prevention of delirium within intensive care (AHS, 2018). Having a streamlined provincial standard can promote future successful integrated treatment
Overview
Escape Fire summarizes American healthcare delivery challenges from different perspectives including clinicians, service providers, patients, cultural context, fiscal hardship and alternate collaborators (military). Concurrent paradigms of psychological, political, and socioeconomic factors further compound effective healthcare delivery. The overtones of the film’s narrative reflect similar barriers to effective healthcare impartment in Canada. There are common issues such as fee-for-service (FFS) billing models, disjointed services, soaring drug costs, and limited insured services. Not all medical care is actually free in Canada, but most major health services are covered. Even though there is federal funding for certain …show more content…
AHS has created Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs) to help streamline treatments, protocols, and collaborators across the province. SCNs involve networks of people who are passionate and knowledgeable about specific areas of health, challenging them to find new and innovative ways of delivering care that will provide better quality, better outcomes and better value for every Albertan (AHS, 2018). AHS and the Critical Care SCN developed a Provincial Intensive Care Unit Delirium Initiative. Through innovation and collaboration, the SCN helped establish provincial standards and guidelines for the management and prevention of delirium within intensive care (AHS, 2018). Having a streamlined provincial standard can promote future successful integrated treatment