Many quality improvement techniques—including the promotion of evidence-based treatments and well-coordinated care—can improve health outcomes. Their influence is often limited by factors beyond clinicians’ control, such as patients’ education, employment, and social support. To address the social and economic factors that affect health, quality improvement initiatives must reach beyond the traditional boundaries of the health […]
The improvements of child health consist of communitywide analysis in finding improved ways of handling health diseases, like the chronic asthma. According to MedlinePlus (n.d.), a United States Library of Medicine for health information and improvement, the chronic disease of asthma affects the tubes of human airways, when carrying air in and out of lungs. […]
As a healthcare leader, one may view health inequality as still on the rise in the labor market. Likewise, researchers may need to open-up critical conversations about gender mentality. Gender inequality can be referred to as “structural inequality.” This is because the mentality of inequality has built on the system for a long period of […]
Health literacy occurs when health information and services created for the public match with people’s capacity to find, understand, and use them. AHRQ’s health literacy resources help health care professionals and delivery organizations make information easier to understand and systems easier to navigate for patients. I will say the National Action Plan to Improve Health […]
There are many advocates of U.S healthcare system, in terms of historical and quality delivery of care. For example, some advocates of healthcare improvement, quality and equality of care have come far away from home. This is because there is no doubt the trends in U.S. healthcare industry is evolving, and thanks to policy changes, […]
Addressing the quality of care in today’s era of health care reform is neither a top-down nor bottom-up approach alone. This is because successful implementation of any health care reform law will be contingent on the ability of all participating parties ( ie. federal government, the states, health care payers, hospitals, industry, medical societies, physicians, […]
The effective governing boards share long term vision and safeguard the interest of the shareholders, healthcare organizations. For example, the roles of the effective governing board of directors, in publicly held companies is governed in part by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and is designed to serve as a benchmark for management to protect shareholders. […]
In terms of the complexity in US healthcare system, it is by no surprise that multiple players maintain key roles and face distinct challenges in the provision of care. These challenges range from financing and technological issues facing health facilities to supply and educational challenges facing providers. There is the role-shifting of government toward health […]
There are three critical issues in establishing trust between healthcare administration and doctors; Communication, Respect and Awareness. Communication is critical and needs to be established early in the administration to physician relationship. Administrators need to find out what the physicians need and how the administrators can meet those needs. The approach and delivery of communication […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PDEP) has fined Catalyst Energy incorporation in the amount of $185,000. The PDEP has proved that, based on their unswerving water samples, Catalyst Energy (CE) has contaminated water supplies near its oil and gas well operations in Forest, McKean and Warren counties. Therefore, unless CE can prove otherwise, they […]
