Explains why quality and patient safety are important, particularly for this health care setting

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For this Application Assignment, you will consider quality and patient safety efforts for a particular type of organization.

To prepare for this Application Assignment:

  • Select a health care setting such as an acute care hospital, long-term care facility, or private clinic.
  • Consider the importance of quality and patient safety in this organization.
  • Consider the challenges to providing quality and patient safety in this organization.

To complete this Application Assignment, write a 2- to 3-page paper that:

  • Explains why quality and patient safety are important, particularly for this health care setting.
  • Identifies the key challenges regarding quality and/or patient safety for this setting.
  • Describes at least two strategies for improving and assuring quality and patient safety in this setting and explains why you chose these strategies.

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Students to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

Consider how the traditional fee-for-service model affects the overall quality and profit margins of health care providers.

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The fee-for-service model of health care is neutral with regard to differences in the quality of health care. The pay-for-performance (P4P) model of health care attempts to set targets to measure quality care. If quality targets are met, providers are rewarded financially. This model is gaining increased popularity in both the public and private sectors. It is, however, not without its critics.

In this week’s Discussion, you and your colleagues will compare and contrast the pay-for-performance model and the fee-for-service model of health care.

To prepare for this Discussion:

  • Consider how the P4P model affects the overall quality and profit margin of health care.
  • Consider how the traditional fee-for-service model affects the overall quality and profit margins of health care providers.

Day 4, post a comprehensive response to the following:

  • What are the underlying goals of P4P and fee-for-service models?
  • Are there risks to patients in a P4P model?
  • If you were a patient, which model would you prefer the hospital to follow? Why?
  • If you were a provider, which model would you prefer to be paid for? Why?

Required Resources

Media

  • Video: Dentzer, S. (2006). National campaign aims to curb hospital mistakes, saves lives. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec06/lives_08-18.htmlThis video presentation includes an interview with Dr. Donald Berwick discussing the 100,000 Lives Campaign. There is also an option to download the audio only.

Readings

  • Course Text: Jonas & Kovner’s Health Care Delivery in the United States
    • Chapter 11, “High Quality Health Care”

    This chapter defines quality of health care and how differing definitions of quality care are influenced by the perspective of different stakeholders. Chapter 11 also addresses basic strategies for managing quality within the inherent complexity of health care organizations.

  • Article: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2008). The current state of health care quality. Retrieved from http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=30711

This article provides an overview of three key concerns in quality health care: underuse, overuse, and misuse of resources. The full article is available for download by scrolling down the page to the Publication and Resources section and clicking Download to view “The Current State of Health Care Quality Overview.”

  • Article: Wharam, J. F., & Sulmasy, D. (2009). Improving the quality of health care: Who is responsible for what? JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 

Discuss how pay-for-performance affects how health care providers practice

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Resource: Reimbursement and Pay-for-Performance Paper Grading Criteria

 

a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper and discuss the following:

  • Define pay-for-performance.
  • Explain how reimbursement is affected by the pay-for- performance approach.
  • Discuss how system cost reductions impact the quality and efficiency of health care.
  • Discuss how pay-for-performance affects how health care providers practice, and how consumers are able to access and use the healthcare system
  • Discuss the effects pay-for-performance will have on the future of health care.
    • Define pay-for-performance.
    • Explain how reimbursement is affected by the pay-for- performance approach.
    • Discuss how system cost reductions impact the quality and efficiency of health care.
    • Discuss how pay-for-performance affects how health care providers practice, and how consumers are able to access and use the healthcare system
    • Discuss the effects pay-for-performance will have on the future of health care.

    Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

     

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Please provide in-text citations for each bulleted item and references

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Analyze the importance of standardized data collection and reporting in health care

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  • From the e-Activity, determine a key factor that has delayed the widespread implementation of electronic health records in health care organizations. Provide an example of the effects of each factor to support your rationale.
  • Determine two areas where HIPPA has influenced the development of HIMS standards. Justify your response.

Integrating HIMS Standards

 

  • Recommend two types of health care information that you believe should be standardized for all health care organizations. Support your rationale.
  • Analyze the importance of standardized data collection and reporting in health care, and support your response. Next, determine two functions of standardized data collection that could improve the quality of health care services on a global scale. Provide an example of each function to support your analysis.
  • Recommend two types of health care information that you believe should be standardized for all health care organizations. Support your rationale.
  • Analyze the importance of standardized data collection and reporting in health care, and support your response. Next, determine two functions of standardized data collection that could improve the quality of health care services on a global scale. Provide an example of each function to support your analysis.