Read Basics of the U.S. Health Care System (Niles, 2018): isbn 9781284169874
Chapter 3: Government’s Role in U.S. Healthcare (Review – Assigned in previous module)
Chapter 4: Public Health’s Role in Healthcare (Review – Assigned in previous module)
Chapter 10: Information Technology Impact on Health Care
Chapter 14: Analysis of the U.S. Healthcare System
doi:10.2471/BLT.14.141762 (see attached file)
Review web pages:
https://www.cdc.gov/ehrmeaningfuluse/index.html
https://www.aha.org/websites/2009-12-11-goals-medicare-and-medicaid-electronic-health-records-programs
https://www.aha.org/websites/2009-12-11-goals-medicare-and-medicaid-electronic-health-records-programs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuwUCAuR01g
https://www.cdc.gov/ehrmeaningfuluse/introduction.html
https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/meaningful-use-definition-objectives
https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/downloads/EP-MU-TOC.pdf
https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/Hosp_CAH_MU-TOC.pdf
https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/faqs/what-patient-portal
The COVID 19 pandemic has propelled health care and innovation forward at a pace many times faster than before the spread of the virus.
Here is a web site outlining some of these innovations: https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/covid-19
Some of the innovations include:
Rapid expansion of telehealth
Expanded need for broadband networks for homes
Contract tracing through phones and other electronic devices
Highlighted disparities in health outcomes/deaths
New production systems for personal protective equipment, ventilators, etc.
Realization that many key health care needs have been outsourced to other countries, limiting the US ability to respond.
Shortened vaccine development process and trials
https://cen.acs.org/business/outsourcing/COVID-19-reshaping-pharmaceutical-supply/98/i16
History will likely look back on this time to see the impact of expediting research, potentially waiving security protocols and protection of humans subjects developed more than 50 years ago after a number of unethical studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States came to light such as the Tuskegee study https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
INSTRUCTIONS
In at least 250 words:
Select and explain a specific objective (include the objective number) from one of the HealthyPeople https://www.healthypeople.gov/ indicators that has meaning to you, including the target population.
Besides the Department of Health and Human Services / CDC that sponsors HealthPeople, identify at least one of the other organizations/institutions that act as a major architect of quality care initiatives (i.e., who is mandating and/or funding the initiatives) that target this goal.
Describe a quality initiative targeting that issue and explain how that initiative should impact health outcomes.
US Based sources only
APA 7th edition formatting
no copied, quoted or plagiarized material
Write in 3rd person