Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) is important to the structure and function of today’s healthcare. According to Centers of Medicare & Medicaid services, “QIO is a group of health quality experts, clinicians, and consumers organized to improve the care delivered to people with Medicare.” Medicare is becoming the dominating force in the health care industry because of the influx of people entering the program. The people/patients who are receiving this benefit are people who are 65 years and older, most are the baby boomers. Baby boomers is a large group of people in the United States; born from 1946 to 1964 and they make up a large portion of the population in the United States. Therefore, it is essential that there is an organization
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This organization has three states involved, MPRO in Michigan, Stratis Health of Minnesota, and MetaStar of Wisconsin. This Quality Improvement Organization is in partnership with Centers of Medicare & Medicaid services. Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network has initiatives that started in 2014 and end in 2019. These initiatives are adult immunizations, Behavioral health, cardiac health, coordination of care, diabetes care, Hospital Healthcare-Associated Infections, Meaningful Use of Health IT, nursing home quality, and quality reporting. Each one of these initiatives is design to produce better quality of care and to reduce cost in the health care field. Adult immunization goal is to improve the outcomes for influenza, pneumonia, and shingles. These health risks are underserved for this population and this initiative is to reduce or decrease the disparities in the population. In addition to adult immunization, behavioral health is an important …show more content…
One of the regulations is quality reporting. The goal for quality reporting is to avoid mistakes that are associated with penalties. Therefore, quality reporting will increase the quality of care and also cut cost by not creating errors in reporting that result in penalties. Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network is designed to improve quality of care and cut cost. They focus on certain errors for an extended period of time. This focus may cause an increase of spending today, however, will greatly reduce the amount of spending later. This reduce spending later, is a major deal for the United States because of the number of people who are reaching the age of 65. Therefore, Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network is helpful in creating a structurally sound health care
This organization has three states involved, MPRO in Michigan, Stratis Health of Minnesota, and MetaStar of Wisconsin. This Quality Improvement Organization is in partnership with Centers of Medicare & Medicaid services. Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network has initiatives that started in 2014 and end in 2019. These initiatives are adult immunizations, Behavioral health, cardiac health, coordination of care, diabetes care, Hospital Healthcare-Associated Infections, Meaningful Use of Health IT, nursing home quality, and quality reporting. Each one of these initiatives is design to produce better quality of care and to reduce cost in the health care field. Adult immunization goal is to improve the outcomes for influenza, pneumonia, and shingles. These health risks are underserved for this population and this initiative is to reduce or decrease the disparities in the population. In addition to adult immunization, behavioral health is an important …show more content…
One of the regulations is quality reporting. The goal for quality reporting is to avoid mistakes that are associated with penalties. Therefore, quality reporting will increase the quality of care and also cut cost by not creating errors in reporting that result in penalties. Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network is designed to improve quality of care and cut cost. They focus on certain errors for an extended period of time. This focus may cause an increase of spending today, however, will greatly reduce the amount of spending later. This reduce spending later, is a major deal for the United States because of the number of people who are reaching the age of 65. Therefore, Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network is helpful in creating a structurally sound health care