The Future Of Health Care (U.S Case Based)
The Future Organization
Gradually, the health care system will stabilize. Given the still rising the care costs and still increasing percentage of GDP occupied by health care spending, the recent push to truly reform this care's organization and payment methodology has taken on new urgency. This concern is quality. From the family's perspective, quality care typically means that it is:
€ Continuous€"Care should be available throughout the year and not just during encounters with physicians.
€ Collaborative€"From the patient's perspective, the physician is no longer the only person capable of providing care.
€ Informative€"Using the tenets of patient- and family-centered care, the best informed patient will make the best patient (and caregiver as it is typically the case in pediatrics).
€ Reliable€"Patients need to be assured that they receive the best possible care with all the services (e.g., diagnostic procedures, medications, prophylaxis) needed to improve their health.
€ Proactive€"Pediatricians have always been at the forefront of prevention on behalf of their patients.
€ Safe€"Patients want to feel safe when receiving care. Diagnosis and treatment should make them feel better, not make them sicker.
How To Prepare For The Future in Our Baby and Children
Health care resources may not be beneficial for the common good. Because of the changes in health and care delivery systems, the training of physicians requires adjustments. As part of the IOM Quality Chasm Series, an effort has been made to identify the educational needs of all the health and care providers. The 2003 IOM report €Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality€ postulates that all health and care providers have to learn to:
€ provide patient-centered care
€ employ evidence-based practice
€ apply quality improvement (which includes the elimination of waste)
€ work in interdisciplinary teams
€ utilize informatics
It is hoped that the next decades will see a truly accessible, effective, and efficient health care system evolve to benefit children, their families, providers, and society. Future success will be aided by a number of other important new measures on the forefront of medicine. These will include:
€ user-friendly electronic medical records that will be integrated between all settings (inpatient, outpatient, also private practices) to allow information sharing among all providers for optimally coordinate care
€ total transparency about all interventions for patients and their families by allowing them access to the electronic record system;
€ more thorough reviews of patients' progress to monitor quality and effective use of resources by third-party payers; and
€ the imposition of potential penalties for not adhering to certain qualities of care measures.
more at: healthinfants.com
Gradually, the health care system will stabilize. Given the still rising the care costs and still increasing percentage of GDP occupied by health care spending, the recent push to truly reform this care's organization and payment methodology has taken on new urgency. This concern is quality. From the family's perspective, quality care typically means that it is:
€ Continuous€"Care should be available throughout the year and not just during encounters with physicians.
€ Collaborative€"From the patient's perspective, the physician is no longer the only person capable of providing care.
€ Informative€"Using the tenets of patient- and family-centered care, the best informed patient will make the best patient (and caregiver as it is typically the case in pediatrics).
€ Reliable€"Patients need to be assured that they receive the best possible care with all the services (e.g., diagnostic procedures, medications, prophylaxis) needed to improve their health.
€ Proactive€"Pediatricians have always been at the forefront of prevention on behalf of their patients.
€ Safe€"Patients want to feel safe when receiving care. Diagnosis and treatment should make them feel better, not make them sicker.
How To Prepare For The Future in Our Baby and Children
Health care resources may not be beneficial for the common good. Because of the changes in health and care delivery systems, the training of physicians requires adjustments. As part of the IOM Quality Chasm Series, an effort has been made to identify the educational needs of all the health and care providers. The 2003 IOM report €Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality€ postulates that all health and care providers have to learn to:
€ provide patient-centered care
€ employ evidence-based practice
€ apply quality improvement (which includes the elimination of waste)
€ work in interdisciplinary teams
€ utilize informatics
It is hoped that the next decades will see a truly accessible, effective, and efficient health care system evolve to benefit children, their families, providers, and society. Future success will be aided by a number of other important new measures on the forefront of medicine. These will include:
€ user-friendly electronic medical records that will be integrated between all settings (inpatient, outpatient, also private practices) to allow information sharing among all providers for optimally coordinate care
€ total transparency about all interventions for patients and their families by allowing them access to the electronic record system;
€ more thorough reviews of patients' progress to monitor quality and effective use of resources by third-party payers; and
€ the imposition of potential penalties for not adhering to certain qualities of care measures.
more at: healthinfants.com
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