Quality of health care in US
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Admin Ultima
United States is the World’s only country which spends too much on health cares. Hence it is essential to evaluate the conformation of quality standards of the health care providers in the country. A general study reveals that quality depended on a large extend to the specific medical conditions.
Some errors present in the medical records were interpreted as a lack of quality in health care by some of the studies. The most common threat to the health of Americans comes from the failure to stick to the concerned health care processes for some basic health problems. This can be rectified with the help of a proper information conveyance concerning health care and fixing a baseline for the quality measurement of the health care.
I agree. Many American health systems are significantly underinvested in quality management Infrastructure, Process, and Organization. In order to achieve breakthrough improvement in quality and patient safety, it is necessary to develop a “world class” quality management foundation that includes:
Strategy: including a clear linkage of quality and patient safety to the organizational strategy and a Board-driven imperative to achieve quality goals.
Infrastructure: incorporating effective quality management technology, EMR and physician order entry, evidence based care development tools and methodologies, and quality performance metrics and monitoring technology that enables “real time” information.
Process: including concurrent intervention, the ability to identify key quality performance “gaps,” and performance improvement tools and methodologies to effectively eliminate quality issues.
Organization: providing sufficient number and quality of human resources to deliver quality planning and management leadership, adequate informatics management, effective evidence based care and physician order set development, performance improvement activity, and accredition planning to stay “survey ready every day.”
Culture: where a passion for quality and patient safety is embedded throughout the delivery system and leaders are incented to achieve aggressive quality improvement goals.
My firm has assisted a number of progressive health systems to achieve such a foundation, and to develop truly World Class Quality.
Hi Scott, your in depth understanding of the system and ways of improving it is quite good and focussed.