Healthcare quality

care in the United States. The most major issue being the constant imbalance of cost, access, and quality. Many countries around the world have been utilizing the system of socialized health care for years, including Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. These three international health systems will be analyzed in terms of organization, finances, outcomes in relation to cost, access, and quality, as well as the overall opinion of the system. This data will then be compared to the current…

Therefore threat of substitute for CGH is low as telehealth cannot replace traditional medical practices; only can serves as a support to the healthcare industry. 3.3 Bargaining power of customers: Low The bargaining power of patients for CGH is low as healthcare industry is almost not affected by buyer power as the healthcare industry is constantly providing healthcare services to people, regardless of how good or bad economy is. It is not the buyers’ decision to decide whether to consume or…

the year’s healthcare organizations have increasingly used the Lean Six Sigma principles to improve operating efficiency in their organization to better deliver care to the patients (Poksinska, Fialkowska-Filipek & Engström, 2017). The Lean Six Sigma was originally used in manufacturing businesses as a strategy for improvement by increasing performance that inheres to better customer satisfaction and improved results of the bottom-line (Laureani, Brady & Antony, 2013). In healthcare, Lean Six…

both positives and negatives in regard to reimbursing healthcare providers based on their performance. The ‘pay-for-performance’ term is meant to enhance efficiency, value, and quality in the overall market. I think that healthcare providers should have incentives based on the quality of care they provide, because generally, incentives motivate people to achieve higher and produce good results. Ways to reward providers are, physician quality reporting and Medicare advantage plan bonuses. Te…

The Mission The United States Veteran Healthcare Association (VHA), consolidated in 1930, today is a one of the largest health care systems in the country. The mission statement for the Veteran Healthcare Association is to “Provide professional care to promote, protect, and restore the health of all who have and shall borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s veterans,” (U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, 2014). The principal…

The process is commonly referred to as quality improvement. This is where information is gathered by various means to improve the quality of safe care to be provided. This is performed on the basis of a reporting system. When an error or near miss takes place, healthcare staff must revert back to holding each other and their selves accountable by reporting the action. Once the action is reported by the party, a group of people such as risk management, quality improvement team, and many others…

were achieved with task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to mid-level workers or lay health workers. However, most of the identified studies were underpowered to detect any difference. Three studies were identified on the cost implications of task-shifting. Task-shifting resulted in substantial cost and physician time savings and concluded that task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to lay health workers can potentially reduce…

and Advanced practice registered nurses. The board of nursing also regulate nursing assistive personal such as certified nursing assistant and home health aides. The DC board of nursing perform its regulations by ensuring and verifying that each healthcare provider have adequate education and training needed prior assuming an entitle role. The DC board of nursing also provides newsletters to its members to inform them about ongoing nursing and health issues in the district. The board…

Effective communication between healthcare practitioners and patients is very important for delivering high quality healthcare and safe patient care. Failures in communication are an extremely common cause that leads to poor patient outcome and even harm patients inadvertently. Effective communication can make patients feel secured to disclose their health condition to healthcare practitioners, thus it is able to enhance the quality of healthcare services and contribute towards better long-term…

Sharp Healthcare is a large healthcare organization that has set a of goal of being the best place to work and the best place to get healthcare. They have accomplished a lot toward both of these goals by implementing their Six Pillars of Excellence. Sharp focuses on re-recruiting their employees, and use feedback with re-training for employees that are falling short of the company’s expectations. They also implemented patient surveys to acquire feedback from those receiving care so that they can…