Rabei Alaisami
September 26, 2016
MPHC 7101
Book review
“Health Care Quality Improvement: Ethical and Regulatory Issues”
This book is composed of 188 pages, and was published in 2007 in the United States of America with an ISBN 978-0-916558-30-7. The project that produced this book was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and was done by The Hastings Center
21 Malcolm Gordon Road, Garrison, New York 10524.
The Hastings Center project assembled a group of experts from a number of affected and interested fields and disciplines involved in health-care QI, including medicine, nursing, law, social science, health-care management, medical editing and publishing, health policy and regulation, health-services research, and bioethics. …show more content…
As well as The mechanism of organized health-care arrangements (OHCAs), which permit the sharing of personal health information among participating health-care facilities, in line with HIPAA requirements. Such flexibility is one key ingredient in expanding the scope of QI knowledge and reforms beyond the confines of single, isolated …show more content…
D. Anderson Cancer Center”. As well as “The basic principles and practices of the extensive QI undertaking at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City”.
When I first submitted this book to be approved by Dr. Balas I was interested in looking into quality and quality Improvement in general as well as specifically in the ethical and regulatory issues in that field.
This book gave me an in depth sight of such a sector, as well as it opened my eyes on a lot of ethical and regulatory topics regarding it.
It leaded me through the quality improvement concepts and efforts all the way through from the ancient Greek to our modern health system. Still, this book wasn’t able to answer a very important question regarding the borderline between what is considered Quality Improvement QI and what is considered as a research, but at the end I wasn’t surprised of that as such a complicated topic won’t be able to be solved easily.
I would highly suggest reading this book to anyone as it changed my perspective of many topics including the health care system, the many factors and many stakeholders who control it, and the way to build a strategy in attempt to improve it’s quality while balancing the all previously mentioned
September 26, 2016
MPHC 7101
Book review
“Health Care Quality Improvement: Ethical and Regulatory Issues”
This book is composed of 188 pages, and was published in 2007 in the United States of America with an ISBN 978-0-916558-30-7. The project that produced this book was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and was done by The Hastings Center
21 Malcolm Gordon Road, Garrison, New York 10524.
The Hastings Center project assembled a group of experts from a number of affected and interested fields and disciplines involved in health-care QI, including medicine, nursing, law, social science, health-care management, medical editing and publishing, health policy and regulation, health-services research, and bioethics. …show more content…
As well as The mechanism of organized health-care arrangements (OHCAs), which permit the sharing of personal health information among participating health-care facilities, in line with HIPAA requirements. Such flexibility is one key ingredient in expanding the scope of QI knowledge and reforms beyond the confines of single, isolated …show more content…
D. Anderson Cancer Center”. As well as “The basic principles and practices of the extensive QI undertaking at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City”.
When I first submitted this book to be approved by Dr. Balas I was interested in looking into quality and quality Improvement in general as well as specifically in the ethical and regulatory issues in that field.
This book gave me an in depth sight of such a sector, as well as it opened my eyes on a lot of ethical and regulatory topics regarding it.
It leaded me through the quality improvement concepts and efforts all the way through from the ancient Greek to our modern health system. Still, this book wasn’t able to answer a very important question regarding the borderline between what is considered Quality Improvement QI and what is considered as a research, but at the end I wasn’t surprised of that as such a complicated topic won’t be able to be solved easily.
I would highly suggest reading this book to anyone as it changed my perspective of many topics including the health care system, the many factors and many stakeholders who control it, and the way to build a strategy in attempt to improve it’s quality while balancing the all previously mentioned