Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

Impact on Healthcare Reform on Diagnostic Laboratory Testing The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the diagnostic testing. Getting the proper diagnosis can be challenging and timely process. Perhaps, it is very important to invest in the quality laboratory testing to allow faster diagnosing of the individual, which would lead to the faster and more efficient treatment. “An estimated 70% of all decisions regarding a patient’s diagnosis and…

Care Act was implemented to allow a market for people to have access to insurance at an affordable rate. To achieve the goal of universal coverage of health insurance the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law. The Affordable Care Act’s core achievement is to give health insurance to countless Americans, regardless of their income or health status. The act also increases coverage to expand Medicaid and cover people living near the poverty line. The Affordable Care Act…

always new methods to improve the standards of care for our patients, and there are always down falls to the system. It is important to stay up to date on both the good and the bad in order to mold the field of nursing into one of integrity and respect. This applies to every discipline of nursing practice, especially those who work in mental health nursing. This is why I have chosen to research and learn about the ethics behind patient safety in mental health nursing. The article that I have…

describes one of a number of issues that affects not only the relationship between a physician, a patient and the managed care network, but also offers an observation/or opinion in regards to the impact of the Patient Protection & Affordability Act. Depending on which side of the argument one may wish to champion, advocate or proponent, there are and will always be too sides to the story of any legislative act. Legislative action originates from a myriad of influences that may wish to address a…

Medicine (IOM) published Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century that identified deficiencies and trends in the United States healthcare system. In this report, the IOM outlined the essence of quality health care as safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable, paving the way to today’s health care quality programs in an effort to produce optimal care and outcomes (IOM, 2001). Kelly (2014) states that “health quality policy may be thought of as…

Introduction In this article, a quality management plan to prevent any further occurrence of the problem in the first scenario would be discussed. What A health professional plays important roles in improving and maintaining quality of health care. On one hand, it is the responsibility of a health professional to maintain the standard of their own practice. In radiology department, a radiographer helps to maintain the quality of health care by improving image quality, keeping radiation dose as…

This week's discussion board concerns that of quality in the operating room. The case of Forthright Medical Center: Social marketing and the Surgical Checklist is very interesting in that all of the issues that came about during the surgery could have been easily avoided if the staff was properly trained and made aware of the hospitals mandated new quality improvement initiative. In fact, the case was a little comical because of the "what can go wrong, will go wrong" factor. It was also…

And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs” (President Barrack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009). Soon after the inaugural speech, President Barrack Obama passed the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act of 2009…

Another piece of federal legislation with historical distinction is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The Administrative Simplification provisions of HIPAA legislation (Code of Federal Regulations Title 45, §160 and §164) required establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and addressed security and…

informatics to train knowledgeable personnel. Although nurse informatics is essential, barriers still exist. These barriers include the lack of system integration, failure to implement informatics principles and inadequate screen (Thede, 2012). The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) addresses the challenges of preparing future nurses with…